Approximate location of the Oct 12 2010 Titan crescent:
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We have clouds! I think!

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/W00065753.jpg

Craig

A dodgy enhancement of W00065756, lower half of the crescent divided by the mirrored upper part and result "multiply" overlaid in Photoshop over the original frame:

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The brightening of the south pole is an artifact of different haze structures at the poles. This looks like the most expansive cloud field I've yet seen imaged on Titan by Cassini.

It seems to be following the same pattern as the October 2004 storm. In early October 2004, we saw a single broad storm that covered a large area. It also appeared to be a single cloud region. By Ta in late October, it had broken up into numerous cumulus clouds.

Wasn't that one a polar storm, though? Also detectable even in visible imagery.

Yeah, but it is still following the same pattern.

A bit more like the 'tropical' storm of April 2008 (not observed by Cassini until the very end) but well documented by ground observatories as discussed in this http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=144664 topic
Here's another photoshop attempt at showing the clouds, using a prior CB3 cloudless image with the Oct 14th image (left image only) and employing a 'difference' blend. The cloud tops and shapes in each hemisphere are interesting.
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Cloud evolution from the T72 storm shows similar cloud development in south temperate and high S polar latitudes and at longitudes some 40-60 deg east of the major cloud burst as the April 2008 storm reported by Schaller et al. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/...ature08193.html Photos on top show approximate T72 cloud locations (red asterisk) on the Celestia grid. The center longitude of all images is noted in parenthesis. Bottom images are from figure 2 of the Schaller paper modified with grid overlay.
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