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Unexpected belt of ice on Titan
MarcF
post May 1 2019, 01:39 PM
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A massive belt of water ice, 6,300 kilometers long, has been identified on the surface of Titan.
https://www.space.com/titan-saturn-moon-wei...-formation.html
“It’s possible that we are seeing something that’s a vestige of a time when Titan was quite different,” says Griffith. “It can’t be explained by what we see there now.” Titan is probably not geologically active now, but the exposed ice could be a sign of the moon’s crust shifting or quaking in the past.
The ice may be embedded in the side of cliff faces exposed by erosion, rather than flat on the ground, Griffith says"

The water ice feature localizes to the huge linear formation including the Aztlan sand sea and its extensions on each side, which is probably not a coincidence. It reminds me the complex ridge-trough system at least 3200 km long extending north-to-south along the 155° meridian on Pluto.
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post May 1 2019, 09:54 PM
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It does indeed line up incredibly well with Aztlan:

https://media.springernature.com/m685/sprin...6_Fig2_HTML.png


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- MarcF   Unexpected belt of ice on Titan   May 1 2019, 01:39 PM
- - Ian R   It does indeed line up incredibly well with Aztlan...   May 1 2019, 09:54 PM
- - ngunn   Yes, but more specifically the western margin of A...   May 2 2019, 08:12 AM
- - MarcF   I have always been surprised by the huge straight ...   May 2 2019, 01:31 PM
- - stevesliva   ^ rifting a la Ithaca Chasma makes sense to me. ...   May 2 2019, 04:25 PM
- - Explorer1   Could the proposed Dragonfly mission land somewher...   May 2 2019, 06:46 PM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (Explorer1 @ May 2 2019, 11:46 AM) ...   May 4 2019, 06:25 PM
|- - Steve5304   QUOTE (vjkane @ May 4 2019, 06:25 PM) The...   May 5 2019, 03:27 AM
- - titanicrivers   I have wondered as have others https://photojourna...   May 23 2019, 01:45 AM
- - ngunn   I think there is a problem with time scales when l...   May 23 2019, 08:22 AM
- - rlorenz   QUOTE (ngunn @ May 23 2019, 03:22 AM) The...   May 24 2019, 12:01 AM

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