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[titanicrivers]

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

[titanicrivers]

From a New Scientist article on the Titan Storm:“The team found that Titan appeared brighter on 13 April 2008, and on the following night, Mauna Kea's 8-metre Gemini North telescope revealed a large cloud centred some 30° south of Titan's equator.”

I wondered where exactly on Titan this storm developed. Using David Seal’s Solar System Simulator and the Celestia program and using the date of the first Gemini N. photo (April 14, 2008) one finds this storm amazingly close to Hotei Arcus !! (see graphic below)



Some thoughts:
1) Is it possible the postulated cryolava activity in this region influenced the storm’s development?
2) Did it rain on this region and if so could this have influenced the VIMS data collected before and after the storm event?
3) Are the clouds seen in the Hotei region on T44 (N00111091 taken on May 28, 2008 ) a remnant of the storm?
4) Were there any changes in the Hotei region (altered channels, playa like regions) that developed after April 2008?