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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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Aug 18 2012, 02:32 PM
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@machii
Yes even though we've gotten some tantalizing peeks trough the atmosphere, our exploration of Titan are quite in the same early stages but not quite like Mariner 9 which were one orbiter, rather like the early set of flyby missions of Mars, since Cassini do not approach Titan close that often. (And I still cannot bend my head around the word dunes, even less talk about a 'desert' - it is rather one alien and cryogenic kind of snowdrift on this moon.) |
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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
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