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Bright Spot On Titan, VIMS and ISS collaboration
volcanopele
post May 25 2005, 08:42 PM
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Odd Spot on Titan Baffles Scientists
NASA/JPL/ISS/VIMS press release
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-rele....cfm?newsID=576

ISS/VIMS combined image
http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=1111

"Red" Spot on Titan
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07877

My blog posting on all this
http://volcanopele.blogspot.com/2005/05/br...t-on-titan.html


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post May 25 2005, 09:35 PM
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Boy -- the "smile" sure looks like a portion of a crater rim to me. Could differential solar heating of the inner rim of a crater wall cause it to heat up enough above its surroundings that other chemical processes would take place and give you a combination of topographic control of heated atmosphere and a noticeable difference in composition?

If the smile is a crater wall, the entire crater has been degraded -- the "upper" portion of the circle is not apparent, and there seems to be dark deposit "ponds" at places where the upper portion of the rim wall ought to be...

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- volcanopele   Bright Spot On Titan   May 25 2005, 08:42 PM
- - dvandorn   Boy -- the "smile" sure looks like a por...   May 25 2005, 09:35 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   Hello all, I am new to this forum, but Doug alre...   May 26 2005, 05:25 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   From the ESA page, they say that: 1) the feature ...   May 28 2005, 09:15 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ May 28 2005, 04:15 P...   May 28 2005, 10:05 PM
- - Sunspot   New images are up.......the strange crescent shape...   Jun 6 2005, 01:23 PM
- - Palomar   *I found an answer to a question in volcanopele...   Aug 27 2005, 12:23 PM

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