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[volcanopele]

The latest PDS release for Cassini is now online at http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/data/cassi...assini_orbiter/

I've posted the RADAR swaths from T48 and T49 at http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~perry/RADAR/ . These swaths include observations of the ISS playa, Tui Regio (yep, it does look a lot like Hotei Regio), Shikoku Facula, Belet, and the southern mid-latitudes.

One image I want to highlight is from one of the T48 swaths. It covers northern Shikoku Facula. You can see a river channel running from a playa in the center of northern Shikoku east out to the margin between the Shangri-la dune fields and Shikoku. Very cool stuff.
http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~perry/RADA...koku_Facula.jpg

[titanicrivers]

There was overlap to the T49 playa swath and the T36 southern latitudes swath. As these were over a year apart and the overlap (-75S and85W) area was relatively near the lakes that had formed between 2004 and 2005 (see PIA11147) http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11147 and were in the process of drying up I thought it might be worthwhile to look for changes. Looking at the overlap area it seems some variation relates to SAR viewing direction and swath resolution but also there may be changes related to playa drying up between T36 (10/2/07) and T49 (12/2/08). What do ya think!? (I know I'm probably all 'wet' on this one)