Titan locations

[Brendan]

I found information about some features on Titan here:
http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/jsp/FeatureTypes2.jsp?system=Saturn&body=Titan&systemID=6&bodyID=30&sort=AName&show=Fname&show=Lat&show=Long&show=Diam&show=Stat&show=Orig

So I added locations for them. I needed to offset the longnitudes by 180 degrees. What is Ganesa Macula? The label was in a low resolution area.

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Location "XANADU" "Sol/Saturn/Titan"
{
    LongLat [ -80 -15 0 ]
    Size 3400.0
    Type "XX"
}

Location "Ganesa Macula" "Sol/Saturn/Titan"
{
    LongLat [ -92.7 50.0 0 ]
    Size 160.0
    Type "XX"
}


[symaski62]

[maxim]

What is Ganesa Macula? The label was in a low resolution area.

"As you may recall, a 'Macula' is simply an identifiable dark spot located on the surface of a planetary object." (from 'Neptune Tour' by Bob Hegwood)

maxim

[The Singing Badger]

There's a picture of Ganesa Macula at the bottom of this page from the Planetary Society.

http://www.planetary.org/news/2005/titan_lpsc_0819.html

Apparently it may be a cryovolcanic dome of some sort.