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Titan: Xanadu harbours uncommon mountains!
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post Jul 23 2006, 02:06 PM
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The Cassini radar images taken during the flyby of April 30, 2006 show the bright Xanadu region. One big surprise is that it is made of highlands and mountains more than 1000 meters high ( 0.62 mile ). It contradicts the expectations of most scientists who thought that mountains didn't exceed 300 meters.

And the radar images indicate that the constituent of those mountains is similar to a porous water ice. So imagine a giant mountain made of water ice!

The Xanadu region also shows networks of drainage channels. They appear bright in the radar images. How to interpret? normally, a liquid should be less reflective!

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- Webscientist   Titan: Xanadu harbours uncommon mountains!   Jul 23 2006, 02:06 PM
- - Phil Stooke   "The Xanadu region also shows networks of dra...   Jul 23 2006, 02:27 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jul 23 2006, 07:27 A...   Jul 23 2006, 11:38 PM
- - Richard Trigaux   1000m??? this makes a lot, for a crust which is s...   Jul 23 2006, 07:08 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Webscientist originally said "a liquid should...   Jul 24 2006, 01:54 AM
- - Richard Trigaux   downloading the entire radar swap (60Mo) is worth ...   Jul 24 2006, 06:04 AM
|- - David   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jul 24 2006, 06...   Jul 24 2006, 06:34 AM
||- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (David @ Jul 24 2006, 06:34 AM) The...   Jul 24 2006, 06:37 AM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jul 23 2006, 11...   Jul 24 2006, 06:35 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (Big_Gazza @ Jul 24 2006, 11:08 AM)...   Jul 24 2006, 07:37 PM
- - tty   QUOTE (Webscientist @ Jul 23 2006, 04:06 ...   Jul 24 2006, 06:28 AM
- - Big_Gazza   QUOTE And if it is true that we survive after deat...   Jul 24 2006, 11:08 AM
- - MarcF   The radar SAR data indeed seem to show mountains, ...   Jul 24 2006, 06:27 PM
- - volcanopele   The RADAR team used radarclinometry to estimate sl...   Jul 24 2006, 06:40 PM
- - MarcF   Thanks a lot, volcanopele. Your explanations are a...   Jul 24 2006, 07:49 PM

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