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Contrast enhanced triplets http://mars.lyle.org/titan/
raw triplets http://mars.lyle.org/titan/raw/

The 'stream' animation : http://www.mars.asu.edu/~gorelick/huygens1.gif

i've done a couple small mosaics, chock-full-o-jpeg artifacts:

3 frame from the high-res camera : http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/huygens/shoreline.jpg

4 frame from the medium-res camera : http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/huygens/shoreline_medres.jpg

The ones I did are pretty bad, but I figured people might find them interesting anyway. I'm sure we'll see much better in the next couple days.

[David]

Okay, I have to admit it now; if those are rivers then what they're draining into must be a lake. Or... part of an ocean? In either case, that means there's a pretty high bank close to the shore (like the drainage of southern Lake Michigan, I suppose).

[gpurcell]

I think people are misinterpreting the channels. They might look like they are flowing the wrong way, but they aren't. Rather, they're all coming off of a highland and flowing down to the sea.

For it is a sea. It must be.

[volcanopele]

or it was a sea. landing site images from "The sea" show at best some trickling methane.

[remcook]

niiiice

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/cassini/imag...0115montage.jpg

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=36370

[djellison]

It reminds me of one of those sea-side resorts that has a huge tidal reach - and when you get a veyr low tide - you have miles of damp sand - and occasionally - tiny little trickles run thru it.

The thing landed 2 miles west of Weston-Super-Mare !!

Doug

[Mongo]

Yes. From the panorama linked to above, it appears that Huygens landed on one of the 'sand bars' or 'shoals' just 'offshore' from the 'mainland' (presence or absence of quote marks depending on the nature of the dark unit). In which case, the apparent signs of flowing liquid might not be due to a 'stream', but possibly due to the 'ocean' advancing/receding due to a tide.

ESA is saying that these 'shoals' are fog banks, but I am not convinced. They seem to have been unmoving and unchanging during the descent of Huygens, with only their visibility improving with lower altitude.

Bill

[SFJCody]

Some more DISR mosaics are up at http://anthony.liekens.net/index.php/Main/Huygens

Including this one



We have to go back!

[Decepticon]

WOW!

Can they do anything about the jpg distortions/compression?

[alan]

Wow. I'm glad the raw images were leaked. Just imagine how long it would take for the ESA to release something like this.

[Guest_Sunspot_*]

The RAW images have been re-posted now

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/%7Ekholso/data.htm

[Mongo]

There are yet more mosaics available at Anthony Liekens's site. By far the most interesting to me is this mosaic, which was taken at a higher altitude than this one.

In it, you can clearly see 'land' on BOTH sides of the 'ocean'--which makes sense, given what we knew from the global imagery of the Huygens landing zone. What we are looking at is apparently a 'strait' or channel between two land masses.

He also has a colorised version of Christian Waldvogel's panorama.

Bill

[chris]

The RAW images have been re-posted now

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/%7Ekholso/data.htm

They have much better contrast than the previous ones we have seen. Has anyone published the correct order for the triplets yet?

[tedstryk]

I wonder if they were taken down due to a bandwidth issue, or if ESA realized that the proverbial cat was already out of the bag so there was no point in having the official DISR site be the only Huygens site without the images!

[tedstryk]

Here is a version of another surface image. I produced it from 127 images from the middle camera, and used the color from the released image.

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