Looks like lots of interesting stuff here:
http://barnesos.net/publications/papers/20...carus.Gmode.pdf

Two other papers out in Icarus this month:

Mid-Latitude Clouds

Selk Crater

Enjoy,

- Jason

Another just posted - on Xanadu this time. Thanks as always Jason.
http://barnesos.net/publications/papers/20...nadu.Crater.pdf

I'll be honest, I'm skeptical of this idea, though I am always happy to see people willing to go out on a limb and publish stuff on Titan geology.

You are not alone

I am a bit more giving on the idea
a few things

roundish features do tend to be impacts ( not all )

The brain LIKES to see patterns in the noise .It is hard wired TO SEE THEM .

so ???? it might be but it also might not be .

But given the long term weathering ( look at the Yucatán impact basin ) from the air you would NEVER see it .
So it might be...

And another one: http://barnesos.net/publications/papers/20...nter.Spring.pdf

Titan fans here may remember an earlier discussion we had about why Xanadu seems to act as a barrier to the eastward migration of Titan's dunes, and the possibility of a peculiar wind regime being responsible. Well it now appears that Xanadu is also a cloud avoidance zone. Read all about it in section 4.2.3 Special Case of Xanadu

EDIT: Sorry, this is what I get for reacting to a post and not reading the paper. I assumed they were talk about clouds OVER Xanadu, not mid-latitude clouds avoiding Xanadu longitudes. I still wonder if that is due to sample bias, since VIMS takes data mostly during flybys, and we don't have much close up data over Xanadu that would be good for cloud tracking.

So cool. Or relatively warm. But really neat... continent-sized depression(?). Determined to act like a continent.

This logic is risible.

Many terrestrial craters are eroded and indistinct. Therefore an uncompelling and indistinct
albedo patch on Titan with no apparent morphological expression might be an impact crater ?

How about this. Hyperintelligent aliens from Alpha Centauri when visiting Earth would probably
avoid making their presence obvious. I am not obviously hyperintelligent. Therefore I might be
an alien from Alpha Centauri.

Has anyone heard of Bayes' theorem?

More of me turning UMSF into my personal preprint server. Two new VIMS Titan papers out in _Icarus_ in November:

Evaporite by Barnes et al.

Seasonal Cloud Activity by Rodriguez et al.

Hope you find these of interest! I'm biased, but I think that the VIMS/RADAR combined views from the Evaporite paper are totally sweet.

- Jason

Always of interest.

Regarding the VIMS/SAR comparison you refer to - I'm not quite sure what to make of it. The fit is good in some places but completely absent in others. It all makes me reflect on how inadequate our knowledge of Titan will be even after Cassini. The meteorology is sketchy (but may improve), the chemistry even worse (we can only guess at what the evaporites might consist of).

Makes a boat-probe more interesting, no?

Personally I am picturing megacrystals. Just because.

Yup -- I talk about that in the paper some. Basically some dry lakebeds used to hold solute-laden-methane (like saltwater), and others must have held fresh methane (i.e. freshwater). Hence some have evaporite deposits at the bottom, and others don't. Best I can figure it, anyway. . .

- Jason

and indeed we do make such guesses. Of course the two different models
are widely different...
(EPSC abstract from earlier this month..)