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[ngunn]

Good grief, it's the middle of the night here and this appears:
http://ciclops.org/view/5419/Rev_97

[Decepticon]

I'm sure getting impatient! I can't wait.

I Lived close to lake (Toronto) Ontario all my life. Playing at the parks the border the lake as kids makes this something I've been looking forward to a long time.


I can't wait to see if any draining channels surround the lake. Surrounding area should be spectacular!

[rlorenz]

I'm sure getting impatient! I can't wait.
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I can't wait to see if any draining channels surround the lake. Surrounding area should be spectacular!

Patience is a necessary quality (is it a skill, can you learn it?) in outer solar system
exploration. Took 11-odd years between my building the Huygens penetrometer and my
getting the 50 milliseconds of data from it.....

As for channels draining into Ontario - you won't see any in the T49 data : it is altimetry.
(doing altimetry near closest approach, when we could instead be doing SAR imaging, is
always a tough choice. We did it on half of T30, to validate the sartopo technique, and
we are doing in on Ontario....special occasions only!)

We will get SAR imaging of Ontario later in the equinox mission , somewhere in the upper T-fifties

[Juramike]

We will get SAR imaging of Ontario later in the equinox mission , somewhere in the upper T-fifties

That will be a really good thing (<---note smiley emoticons)

IIRC, when this happens, this will make the lakeshore of Ontario Lacus one of the few places with ISS, VIMS, altimetry AND RADAR coverage.

It'll be neat to compare the altimetry and RADAR ovelap of Ontario Lacus and see how it compares to the projected altimetry/RADAR overlay of the northern lake region (from the RADAR look angle overlaps of T25 and T28).

[VIMS/ISS shows that Ontario Lacus is "filled", but I don't think ISS or VIMS has viewed the T25/T28 overlap region yet....too far north.]

-Mike