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rlorenz
post Jan 3 2014, 02:49 PM
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oooh - is it just me, or is the north polar hood starting to look hexagonal ?
This just in from T97 ..
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post Jan 3 2014, 04:06 PM
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Well... after some brutal processing:

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post Jan 8 2014, 02:34 AM
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Would agree with Phil the majority of filtered images show a round polar hood. At the MT3 atmosphereic level the hood image appears quite circular (below). The N polar surface however has more angular albedo features but don't know if that could influence the polar hood shape or not.
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post Jan 16 2014, 06:37 PM
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That ring-looking thing seems interesting though smile.gif http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=302905

edit - an earlier image: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=299891 pretty smile.gif

edit- the same as above basically smile.gif Not sure it is a polar hood though....
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post Jan 28 2014, 01:29 PM
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Titan and Saturn images taken on 1/24/2014 reveal the N polar regions of both. The Titan UV3 CL1 image shows the roundish hood. Comparison to Saturn's hexagon (not the same filter, BL1 in Saturn's case) on the same day (but not the same scale of course) suggests Titan's N pole hood is round unlike Saturn's hexagonal N polar atmospheric structure.
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post Jan 28 2014, 04:19 PM
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Hard to tell, when looking at the corresponding latitude.
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