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[titanicrivers]

Rev 165 will feature the ‘movie stars’ of the Cassini mission Titan, Enceladus and Saturn. Described in Ciclops ‘Looking Ahead’ here http://www.ciclops.org/view/7190/Rev165 Cassini’s encounter with Titan and Saturn will be filmed with the WAC as a spectacular movie on the 6th of May during the distant Titan encounter. A sneak preview is provided below courtesy of the Solar System Simulator http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/. Should be awesome!
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[titanicrivers]

A Rev 165 parting NAC view of Titan shows Adiri well. There appears to be very little left of the post "Arrow Storm" white spots that persisted into 2011 and then faded. The figure shows the enhanced cropped view of Titan and Adiri from 5/7/2012 with 3 views of Adiri from 2011. The exact nature of the bright spots is still debated.... a runoff effect from methane rain on relative highlands of Adiri might explain the lack of initial dark changes seen elsewhere (in presumably lowland areas in Belet and Yalaing Terra). Bright avalanche effects can be seen in terrestial mountain chains after torrential rainstorms (the Adirondack mountains in NY contain such examples) perhaps analagous to the bright spots of Adiri.

Edit: An image depicting some landslides in the Adirondacks in 2011 is shown below






(MOD NOTE: Moved all posts after this one re Titan surface chemistry to new topic created for that purpose.)