Ice Volcanoes Options

[remcook]

where did this idea of ice volcanoes come from. The press releases from the last few days seems to suggest that Titan is packed with ice volcanoes, whereas before it didn't get mentioned much.
I didn't see the ESA press conference last friday, so what did they say there about it?
Why did it got mentioned, because i don't see any volcanoes...
Did Huygens find a lot of water vapour in the troposphere?

[Guest_Sunspot_*]

There was qute a bit of discussion about this when the first radar results were released, they seemd to show "flow" like features. Some of which resembled lava flows on Venus, except of course we would be seeing "cryovolcanism" on Titan.

[Decepticon]

You can see in this image what ESA was taking about.

Looks like some kind of "Flow" into the Darker channel.

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassin..._2088_Img_H.jpg


I'm looking forward to more radar passes.

[volcanopele]

some of the features seen by RADAR last October can be interpreted as being due to viscous lava flows, including a flow and a pancake dome (the roughly circular feature in the radar data).

[Decepticon]

some of the features seen by RADAR last October can be interpreted as being due to viscous lava flows, including a flow and a pancake dome (the roughly circular feature in the radar data).

When I look at that radar I can't shake the feeling that it's a crater.



On another note I wonder where the next radar strip is coming from?

[remcook]

apparently, the VIMS team focussed on a feature called "the snail", which they think is a possible volcano. This should be published in Nature soon they say.