QUOTE (remcook @ Oct 12 2009, 03:05 AM)
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The south polar hood dissipated only just before Cassini arrived, so I'm afraid you'd have to wait another Titan season for that to happen. Polar hood will probably become stronger first.
Right - polar hood decayed just around summer solstice -
see
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rlorenz/polarhood.pdfBut I don't know if it is presently strengthening (though Titan is darker in blue than it has
ever been observed to be, as I just noted in my DPS talk the other week, perhaps as a result
of the polar hood).
A new south polar hood will presumably start forming soon. Since I know some people on
the ISS team, I may suggest they do some occasional Saturnshine imaging to see if they
can see it start to form in the winter darkness.