[X] My Assistant

[Exploitcorporati...]

Pish...day after day sitting at work, pressing the refresh button while waiting for someone to answer the phone and yell at me, and finally the wait is over. With our mysterious Raw Image Page code monkeys back to work after what I'm sure we all hope was a fine holiday, at last we gaze once again upon the face of Tethys, a moon that's likely sick with envy for all the attention her diminutive plume-blastin' brother has enjoyed lately. Here's the 24 November encounter mosaics combined in a slightly fictionalized format, with all the usual positional errors and distortions. Don't come crying to me if the Ice Dingoes eat yer baby because you camped in a duplicate crater I made.

[dvandorn]

Well, EC, the high resolution images of the "lumpier" terrain looks to me to be covered with linear ridges. There are a wide variety of orientations, and they're best seen near the terminator. But there are surely parallel linear ridges all over the place. And while some do seem to have been disrupted by small craters, some of them neatly align strings of craters, craters of almost identical sizes that are exactly as wide as the distance between the linear ridges and that are arrayed in strings between the ridges.

It happens so frequently I have a hard time believing it's all happenstance. Those crater strings are endogenously controlled, I'd bet the farm on it.

-the other Doug

EDIT: Here's a subframe illustrating what I'm seeing:



dvd

[Exploitcorporati...]

Aye, I'd be inclined to agree on most accounts. I'm still curious as to the why of the apparent global dichotomy though. There are quite a few small linear features I'd be hard-pressed to explain away as random, and they do seem to be concentrated in the lumpy places ( I think they might be crude baby versions of the seemingly infinite tiny crosscutting fractures on Dione somehow). There are similar small-scale linear marks on the surface of Rhea, as you've surely noticed.

I notice you have some affinity for crater chains, Odoug. ( I think you're right about Rhea too). I personally see basins a lot myself (usually illusory), but your perception of linear features seems to bear out a lot of the time. I look forward to other views too.

Weigh in, folks. Is Tethys doing lines?