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[Juramike]

Lopes et al. Icarus (in press) "Distribution and interplay of geologic processes on titan from Cassini radar data"
Analysis of RADAR data from Ta - T30 flybys.

Summary from Insider's Cassini: <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassiniinsider/insider20100119/#" target="_blank">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassiniins...sider20100119/#</a>

Here is the source article (freely available): http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mitri/articoli/lopes_09.pdf

(Whoo-hoo! Sotra Facula is considered cryovolcanic!)

[belleraphon1]

Sitting on my desk is a copy of the 1966 version of the book "Intelligent Life in the Universe" b y I.S. Shklovskii and Carol Sagan. I remember begging my mother that I would do whatever chores needed if she would scrape up the money for me to order this from Dover press back in the 60's.

On page 332 is just a sentence devoted to Titan mentioning the Kuiper detection of a methane atsmosphere. Back then, all that could really be written about Titan aside from photometric measurements of albedo.

In front of me on my desk is my laptop with the Lopes et al article on the geologic mapping of this moon.

What a time to have lived and how much more to look forward to.

Carl Sagan used to talk of how priviledged we are to live in this time when we go from ignorance and guessin to measurement and a knowing of our planetary neighbors. In a single lifetime.

What a shame Carl Sagan is not alive to see this!

And looking at that book, I realize how priviledged I am.

Craig