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Titan Storm Clouds !
titanicrivers
post Aug 12 2009, 09:41 PM
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A fascinating presentation by Roe and Brown on a April 2008 storm exploding over the tropics of Titan and followed for a month using the Gemini North telescope with adaptive optics.
Here's the link: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_videos.jsp?cn...496&org=NSF
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post Aug 13 2009, 07:39 AM
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....it is rather coincidental that this occurs around equinox, where surface heating occurs at ... the equator. (and dynamical models predict the start of the flipping over of the circulation pattern). Or is it? ph34r.gif Hopefully we'll see some more clouds soon.

Edit: also note that the first detected clouds on Titan was also a massive cloud outburst, perhaps also in this tropics. This was in 1995, which happens to be close to equinox.
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- titanicrivers   Titan Storm Clouds !   Aug 12 2009, 09:41 PM
- - volcanopele   A few thoughts: 1) Mike Brown has a nice summary ...   Aug 12 2009, 10:07 PM
|- - Jason W Barnes   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Aug 12 2009, 03:07 P...   Aug 12 2009, 11:31 PM
- - remcook   ....it is rather coincidental that this occurs aro...   Aug 13 2009, 07:39 AM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (remcook @ Aug 13 2009, 02:39 AM) ....   Aug 13 2009, 11:05 PM
- - titanicrivers   From a New Scientist article on the Titan Storm:“T...   Aug 14 2009, 08:56 AM
- - volcanopele   Wow, I kept reading 2009, not 2008. Okay, yeah, n...   Aug 14 2009, 09:56 AM
- - belleraphon1   Wow is right if that area really matches the cloud...   Aug 14 2009, 12:21 PM
- - Juramike   From the Nature article Figure 3, the primary outb...   Aug 14 2009, 02:43 PM
- - titanicrivers   I must confess not having the full Nature article ...   Aug 14 2009, 04:31 PM
- - Juramike   The press release image above is Figure 2 in the N...   Aug 14 2009, 05:21 PM
|- - titanicrivers   [quote name='Juramike' date='Aug 14 20...   Aug 14 2009, 06:10 PM
|- - titanicrivers   "Wow! With the Solar System Simulator I ...   Aug 27 2009, 09:40 AM
- - titanicrivers   Thanks Mike. Was there a UTC or Hawaii time speci...   Aug 14 2009, 05:41 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (titanicrivers @ Aug 14 2009, 12:41...   Aug 14 2009, 08:08 PM
- - HughFromAlice   QUOTE name='titanicrivers' date='Aug 1...   Aug 15 2009, 09:32 AM

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