[X] My Assistant

[volcanopele]

It has just come to my attention that there is an article in press in Icarus, Modelling of possible mud volcanism on Titan by A. Dominic Fortes and Peter M. Grindrod. The link to the abstract is on the 'In Press' page on the Icarus website. Just click on the Articles in Press link. the article is the about half way down the page. Sorry I can post a direct link.

I bring this to your attention because of our recent discussion on publication policy with regards to Enceladus data. Now the modeling of mud volcanism is akin to Joe's modeling of plume fall-out. In someways the work is inspired by Cassini results that have only been "press released" but not published. But with some modification, it is not reliant on that data, which makes it a tad more acceptable. That is how the first part of this paper goes. the discussion part of the paper is where things get VERY hairy. First, one of the figures is a crop of my T4 mosaic. Now, personally used strictly as an illustration showing location, I don't consider a problem, though it would have been nice to be notified about it. What is a problem is Figure 5, an image showing a portion of the T3 radar swath. The figure shows an area that hasn't even been publically released as a press image, LET ALONE the PDS. And rather than just using it as a location identifier (though they do preform some albedo correlations), they actually interpret features seen in the figure Note to people here, this is an example of what NOT to do!