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VIMS sees tropical lakes in Shangri La!
titanicrivers
post Jun 14 2012, 06:30 AM
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A news release has just appeared http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-172 concerning the discovery of possible 'tropical lakes' in the Shangri La area. A report will appear in Nature today. The area of Shangri La appears in the VIMS map below
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post Jun 14 2012, 10:17 PM
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I was initially a very strong scptic about any extraterrestrial liquids. VP's scepticism in this case must be respected. Nevertheless we have here a world where the atmospheric pressure greatly favours their presence. I could live with the idea of a thouroughly soaked Titan that is only superficially dry. An earthlike interleaving of porous and impervious materials could produce puddles in some areas while others, such as the Xanadu, are dry even though low in elevation. There could even be a correlation between oases and dunes. On this evidence both are present in Shangri-La; both are absent in Xanadu.
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- titanicrivers   VIMS sees tropical lakes in Shangri La!   Jun 14 2012, 06:30 AM
- - titanicrivers   Machi's labeled version of VP's radar swat...   Jun 14 2012, 07:57 AM
- - ngunn   Nature comment: http://www.nature.com/news/tropica...   Jun 14 2012, 10:33 AM
- - ngunn   Location map here: http://www.nature.com/nature/jo...   Jun 14 2012, 03:43 PM
- - stevesliva   It's amazing how tough Titan is to unravel, ev...   Jun 14 2012, 06:20 PM
- - titanicrivers   Thanks for the link and supplement page Nigel. Th...   Jun 14 2012, 06:28 PM
- - machi   I think, that possible existence of lakes in equat...   Jun 14 2012, 07:34 PM
- - volcanopele   Thank you for posting those images, titanicrivers....   Jun 14 2012, 09:12 PM
- - ngunn   You're not wrong machi. We're just beginni...   Jun 14 2012, 09:14 PM
- - machi   Titan is place hard to understand, so we can expec...   Jun 14 2012, 09:49 PM
- - ngunn   I was initially a very strong scptic about any ext...   Jun 14 2012, 10:17 PM
|- - Ondaweb   QUOTE (ngunn @ Jun 14 2012, 05:17 PM) suc...   Aug 16 2012, 02:28 AM
- - ngunn   We had an extended discussion about that some time...   Aug 16 2012, 08:25 AM
|- - Ondaweb   QUOTE (ngunn @ Aug 16 2012, 03:25 AM) We ...   Aug 16 2012, 02:44 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Ondaweb @ Aug 16 2012, 03:44 PM) T...   Aug 16 2012, 10:54 PM
- - um3k   Heck of a coincidence I was listening to this song...   Aug 17 2012, 04:18 PM
- - TheAnt   @machii Yes even though we've gotten some tan...   Aug 18 2012, 02:32 PM

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