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[Juramike]

Key Quote: "The Sotra area thus seems to be a leading candidate for a cryovolcanic field on Titan. "

AGU abstract for Randy Kirk's presentation on Tuesday:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010AGUFM.P22A..03K

(Serious bonus points for bilingual word play in the title: "La Sotra y las otras")

[Juramike]

It is an overlap of T25 and T28 RADAR Swaths. T25 has the better Sotra Facula image.
T25: <a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09182" target="_blank">http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09182</a>
T28: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09217

T25 was taken February 22, 2007
T28 was taken April 10, 2007

[Webscientist]

15 degrees south latitude, 40 degrees west longitude. So, it must be in the optical "H" of Fensal/Aztlan and more precisely in the optically-dark Aztlan. An irregular bright patch in Aztlan! Correct?
Have you precisely spotted Sotra Facula in the radar swaths ?

VIMS data tend to suggest multiple candidates for cryovolcanic activities, now: Sotra Facula, Hotei Arcus and the other "roughly" circular areas with a dark central feature (calderas or impact craters?). With more lucidity (or imagination),we may find the "Big One".

Sotra Facula, maybe a good place in the next centuries or millenia to go skiing (1000 meters or 600 miles tall).

[titanicrivers]

15 degrees south latitude, 40 degrees west longitude. So, it must be in the optical "H" of Fensal/Aztlan and more precisely in the optically-dark Aztlan. An irregular bright patch in Aztlan! Correct?
Have you precisely spotted Sotra Facula in the radar swaths ?

Yes, its been clearly identified in radar swaths T 25 and T 28 (see Juramike's post #6 above). Go to VP's Swath's website http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~perry/RADAR/
and look for it in T25 part 1 where it has its best appearance. Juramike identified this as a volcano candidate quite a while ago! The graphic below shows Sotra Facula in the T 25 part 1 swath. The final frames of the animation use a color scheme from the Planetary Photojournal movie delineating the dunes and cryolava geological units. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA13695

Edit: For those whose eyes can cross and focus, here's a 3D version