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[remcook]

Question for those who know:
When will there be proper ISS coverage of Titan's North Pole? All the maps upto now only show upto 30 degrees and the t4,T5 flybys only have a bit upto 60 degrees latitude, but that has probably a too high emission angle to see a lot of detail ( http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...fm?imageID=1479 )

there might be lots of clouds, since it's very cold out there at the pole (much more so than the south) and I'm pretty curious about them:)

[edstrick]

volcanopele: ..." The haze makes it difficult to see terrain outside of 45 degrees emission angle unless the surface contrast is high. "....

One thing that's puzzled me... The titan images I've played with have had remarkably strong contrast relatively near the terminator despite low sun angles. I'd rather assumed that the surface illumination would be low and the scene totally dominated by atmosphere-haze scattered light, but that doesn't seem to hold.

Is the surface getting enough diffuse illumination that the low sun angle doesn't make that much difference?