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Titan Surface Features

volcanopele View Member Profile	Dec 16 2004, 05:43 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23	This thread is intended as a discussion of Titan's surface features, possible analogs, wild ideas, etc. To get started, I am posting a list below of all relevent images along with observation request name so everyone is on the same page. The images to be released today will certainly provide plenty of fodder for discussion. Pre-SOI Approach Map http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=214 Reprocessed Approach Map http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=482 T0 SPOLEB http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=253 WIND002 http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=252 Approach Map + SPOLEB http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=627 Ta MOVIEB frame http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=515 LRMONITOR (unprocessed) http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=519 Ta MONITOR http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=575 Ta Early processing Montage http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=533 MEDRES002 http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=541 HIRES frame showing Huygens landing site area http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=535 Tb MOVIED http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=654 EUVFUV002 http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=657 -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist! The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io

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djellison View Member Profile	Jan 18 2005, 11:40 AM Post #2
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	That doesnt sound too likely given the shape of the impactor force curve they showed on BBC2 on the night of the landing... It looked a BIT like this ( fuzzy, very tired memory ) The initial spike is indicatve of the 'crust' obviously - and wsa sharp and short. The bulge afterwards is indicitive of something with fluid in it - compressable and squishy I think if it went thru an ice-pebble, it's be a very different shape indeed Doug

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volcanopele Titan Surface Features Dec 16 2004, 05:43 PM

Sunspot Cool, thanks for posting these. Any more theories... Dec 16 2004, 06:18 PM

volcanopele Here are some more. Hope you like them. Ta Ta_R... Dec 16 2004, 11:33 PM

Sunspot QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 16 2004, 11:33 PM)He... Dec 17 2004, 12:16 AM

Sunspot So we maybe seeing the first evidence of impacts o... Dec 17 2004, 12:26 AM

volcanopele QUOTE (Sunspot @ Dec 16 2004, 05:26 PM)So we ... Dec 17 2004, 02:03 AM

alan Whats the difference in brightness between the bri... Dec 18 2004, 03:11 AM

volcanopele Dark terrain: liquid or not? Well, based on the d... Dec 18 2004, 05:33 AM

volcanopele The order of magnitude could also come from compar... Dec 18 2004, 05:38 AM

Sunspot http://news.com.com/Tantalizing+clues+in+p..._3-54... Dec 18 2004, 01:01 PM

BruceMoomaw I'll stick by my earlier theory: it's been... Dec 18 2004, 01:27 PM

volcanopele both are good possibilities, Bruce. However, one ... Dec 18 2004, 05:54 PM

alan QUOTE This thread is intended as a discussion of T... Dec 18 2004, 07:12 PM

NorbertGiesinger Why should Titan be tidally locked - what means it... Dec 18 2004, 08:02 PM

alan By not being tidally locked I meant while it was s... Dec 18 2004, 08:27 PM

alan No other comments? I guess that idea was too ... Dec 18 2004, 11:27 PM

alan I found something similar to the bright teardrop w... Dec 19 2004, 12:52 AM

Sunspot There are lots of "Tear Drop" shaped isl... Dec 19 2004, 01:04 AM

volcanopele Alan, I don't think your idea is too wild. In... Dec 19 2004, 01:40 AM

alan I thought maybe I was thinking too big. Some of t... Dec 19 2004, 03:06 AM

BruceMoomaw It was indeed pointed out by Carolyn Porco at Thur... Dec 19 2004, 03:35 AM

BruceMoomaw As for Alan's idea -- that is, that the dark s... Dec 19 2004, 03:39 AM

alan If I remember 2001 right, the book not the movie, ... Dec 19 2004, 03:47 AM

alan The wakes could be from the dark material flowing ... Dec 19 2004, 03:54 AM

alan Near the bottom of this image there is a dome with... Dec 19 2004, 04:06 AM

alan Something I've been reading that may apply to ... Dec 19 2004, 04:29 AM

Sunspot QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Dec 19 2004, 03:35 AM)By... Dec 19 2004, 08:05 PM

alan If the dark areas were a slushy material how would... Dec 19 2004, 08:34 PM

BruceMoomaw Flash: JPL has just restored all its new Cassini r... Dec 20 2004, 02:07 AM

BruceMoomaw Alan: "If the dark areas were a slushy materi... Dec 20 2004, 02:11 AM

alan Bruce, If the dark material is being blown around ... Dec 20 2004, 03:21 AM

alan I hope that if Huygens's land in windblown mat... Dec 20 2004, 04:11 AM

alan Chaos terrain or plate tectonics Dec 21 2004, 01:23 AM

volcanopele alan, great minds think alike Seriously, the mor... Dec 21 2004, 02:42 AM

alan "Contemporary volcanic activity ought to be r... Dec 21 2004, 03:26 AM

volcanopele True, true. That bright semi-circle hasn't be... Dec 21 2004, 04:15 AM

alan I thought it was a VIMS image, it had a grainy app... Dec 21 2004, 04:33 AM

alan QUOTE and maybe even volcanism Maybe you say, I... Dec 21 2004, 04:42 AM

alan Some lava flows on Venus and Io for comparison Ve... Dec 21 2004, 05:43 AM

alan If I'm linking to images of lava flows on a ma... Dec 21 2004, 04:55 PM

Sunspot Plunge into an Alien World http://www.space.com/s... Dec 21 2004, 05:57 PM

alan VIMS from July, right image is at 5 microns, ther... Dec 21 2004, 09:56 PM

Sunspot http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4115251.stm ... Dec 21 2004, 10:20 PM

alan Dammit Sunspot, I saw I saw alarm in bold thought ... Dec 23 2004, 01:34 AM

alan The dark area on Titan always looks like an ocean ... Dec 23 2004, 01:39 AM

alan Anyone know what the opposite of a specular reflec... Dec 23 2004, 02:59 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (alan @ Dec 22 2004, 08:59 PM)Anyone kn... Dec 23 2004, 05:35 AM

alan I was looking at my inverted image and noticed it ... Dec 23 2004, 05:53 AM

alan I've been thinking about how the area Cassini ... Dec 23 2004, 06:06 AM

imran Interesting article: Titan: Many Lines of Evidenc... Dec 23 2004, 06:57 AM

alan When I first inverted this image I thought Titan h... Dec 24 2004, 07:17 AM

BruceMoomaw Alan: "Bruce: If the dark material is being b... Dec 24 2004, 04:40 PM

alan So hydrocarbon ice is dark, I guess my snow cover ... Dec 24 2004, 06:48 PM

David QUOTE The dark area on Titan always looks like an ... Dec 24 2004, 09:12 PM

Decepticon Will cassini do any science during the Landing? ... Dec 24 2004, 09:20 PM

djellison QUOTE (Decepticon @ Dec 24 2004, 09:20 PM)Wil... Dec 24 2004, 09:32 PM

Mongo I would like to draw averyone's attention to a... Dec 27 2004, 04:27 PM

Decepticon Umm yeah.... I posted that earlier in the other th... Dec 27 2004, 05:07 PM

Mongo Right. Credit goes to Steve Albers: http://laps.f... Dec 27 2004, 07:18 PM

alan Question, if the dark areas in the global map are ... Dec 30 2004, 01:10 AM

David QUOTE Question, if the dark areas in the global ma... Dec 30 2004, 02:09 AM

BruceMoomaw I presume that what we're seeing is simply tha... Dec 30 2004, 03:03 AM

alan I looked at the articles. The secondary peak in th... Dec 30 2004, 04:11 AM

BruceMoomaw Actually, Roe's article said that it's onl... Dec 30 2004, 06:50 AM

volcanopele QUOTE (alan @ Dec 29 2004, 09:11 PM)I looked ... Dec 30 2004, 05:19 PM

AlexBlackwell QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Dec 30 2004, 03:03 AM)I ... Dec 30 2004, 08:41 PM

AlexBlackwell There's an interesting new preprint entitled ... Dec 30 2004, 08:45 PM

David QUOTE (alan @ Dec 21 2004, 04:42 AM)Maybe you... Jan 16 2005, 08:45 PM

alan QUOTE (David @ Jan 16 2005, 08:45 PM)QUOTE (a... Jan 17 2005, 01:05 AM

alan Someone called the mottled light areas in the sea ... Jan 17 2005, 01:12 AM

Sol QUOTE (alan @ Jan 17 2005, 01:12 AM)Someone c... Jan 17 2005, 10:39 PM

Sunspot I think it's quite possible that the penetrome... Jan 18 2005, 09:48 AM

djellison That doesnt sound too likely given the shape of th... Jan 18 2005, 11:40 AM

Decepticon What if the "sea's" are frozen on t... Jan 18 2005, 02:13 PM

BruceMoomaw That probably won't work -- because water, rem... Jan 18 2005, 02:54 PM

OWW What about the white streaks in the dark areas? I... Jan 18 2005, 03:05 PM

volcanopele QUOTE (ObsessedWithWorlds @ Jan 18 2005, 08:0... Jan 18 2005, 07:59 PM

OWW But where did the 'flood' come from? Tides... Jan 18 2005, 09:01 PM

imran "One photo released Tuesday showed a large bo... Jan 18 2005, 10:07 PM

imran Never mind. They are probably referring to this p... Jan 18 2005, 10:25 PM

Mongo Given that Titan's orbit has an eccentricity o... Jan 18 2005, 10:36 PM

David Taking a tenth look at the global images of Titan,... Jan 19 2005, 12:35 AM

Mongo QUOTE (David @ Jan 19 2005, 12:35 AM)Taking a... Jan 19 2005, 01:00 AM

Bill Harris Steep cliffs and a lot of relief implies tectonics... Jan 19 2005, 02:13 AM

alan A question about the colored surface images. Is su... Jan 19 2005, 04:02 AM

lyford QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Jan 18 2005, 06:13 PM)St... Jan 19 2005, 05:57 AM

john_s QUOTE Taking as a conjecture that the "sea... Jan 19 2005, 03:55 PM

lyford QUOTE (john_s @ Jan 19 2005, 07:55 AM)QUOTE T... Jan 19 2005, 04:06 PM

Mongo QUOTE (john_s @ Jan 19 2005, 03:55 PM)There... Jan 19 2005, 05:09 PM

David QUOTE (Mongo @ Jan 19 2005, 05:09 PM)As you c... Jan 19 2005, 07:31 PM

Mongo One possibility for explaining Titan's orbital... Jan 19 2005, 07:46 PM

BruceMoomaw That Jupiter-Saturn orbital resonance has been pro... Jan 20 2005, 01:21 PM

alan This area appears to have liquid pooled in it. Jan 22 2005, 07:29 PM

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