Posted: 14.01.2005, 21:01
In a complete guess, that image looks almost as if there is seepage coming from a lake, or even smooth ice field.
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t00fri wrote:Here I colorized the "liquid" areas in blue and the land yellowish. This enhances conspicuously the 'canal' network
t00fri wrote:First surface photo...
Dollan wrote:Image artifacts, eh? So the possibility of some sort of liquid being present is still valid... for now. Nice.
Spaceman Spiff wrote:The one that's multi-coloured is great. It's full of river valleys, and there are three canyons in the dark patch. ...
Ah Fridger, but are those channels filled with liquid? I made a comment on 04 Jul 2004 (http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5319) that Titan might have recently turned into a cryogenic equivalent of a dry, desert world. I think that dark area to the right is not liquid, but a dried out lake bed, and it'll have dunes in it. Maybe it hardly rains on Titan these days - too few clouds, just high haze. Also, not only is there light at Titan surface, but rocks and valleys cast directional shadows - and that means: you can tell where the sun is in the sky! Well, early days for speculations yet Fridger, but if you look at the centre picture of this triplet (http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/%7Ekholso/jpeg/triplet.436.jpg), that's a strikingly straight line... Artificial? Built by your Titanian Potato-oid race that is now surrounding the recently landed Huygens probe? .t00fri wrote:Here I colorized the "liquid" areas in blue ...
Dollan wrote:Am I seeing some kind of texture in those smooth dark areas? Or is it an imaging artifact?
The Singing Badger wrote:Do we yet know whether Huygens landed on the dark stuff or the light stuff?