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[alan]

Editors summary of letter in latest issue of Nature

"The surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is coated in a dense methane-rich atmosphere that prevents high-resolution imaging at visible wavelengths. During its first Titan flyby last October, the Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIMS) was able to reveal detailed surface structures, as reported in this issue. Notable features include a circular structure 30 km in diameter, thought to be a cryogenic dome. This may be volcanic, which could explain how the methane in Titan's atmosphere is replenished."

Anyone seen an image of this volcano?

I see volconpele posted it on his blog
http://volcanopele.blogspot.com/
second time thats happened.
Note to self: look there first

This post has been edited by alan: Jun 8 2005, 06:12 PM

[Gsnorgathon]

So if it's a giant cat poo, presumably there should be some giant cat pee that would produce detectable ammonia in Titan's atmosphere. If there's no detectable ammonia, shouldn't it be possible to estimate the minimum age of the giant cat poo by estimating the amount of pee that would go along with it, and the time it would take for the generated ammonia to break down?

[dvandorn]

To heck with that -- I want some imaging of the giant cat!

Anyone know if RADAR will have enough resolution to be able to tell if it's a long-hair or a short-hair cat?

And is there any relationship between this giant cat and the giant rabbit that keeps Chang-Oh company on the Moon?

-the other Doug