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titanicrivers
Cassini is now in Rev 166 which sounds quite exciting for us Titan affectionados. See the description here; http://www.ciclops.org/view/7206/Rev166?js=1
An upclose view of Adiri and a SAR swath that will revisit some small lakes near 80N and 150W previously recorded in T16 and T19 are some Titan related highlights.
Using VP's swath maps, Machi's labeled swath map and a grid and the coordinate given in the ciclops preview (red x marks the spot) I've guessed at some of the small lakes that may be visited below.
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titanicrivers
A higher resolution view of above small lakes
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titanicrivers
Polar projection map (thanks VP) for T83 northern lakes revisit, (hopefully labels are accurate!). Brief mission description now on Cassini web page.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/flybys/titan20120522/
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Decepticon
Im looking forward to this pass.
machi
I'm looking forward to every SAR swath. We had very long time with only few of them and Titan's map isn't still complete. smile.gif
titanicrivers
Titan's lakes up north are sometimes likened to the lakes of northern Minnesota and Ontario's Canadian Shield lakes.
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titanicrivers
Adiri was imaged by the wide angle camera (WAC) and narrow angle camera (NAC) during T83. The Huygens landing site (HLS) was in view in these images as depicted below. The final image of the sequence superimposes the T8 radar swath of the HLS on a close up of the NAC image.
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Ian R
Check out the haze 'cap' at 12 o'clock:

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jasedm
Whoa! and this one too...
Looks almost like an aurora!
jasedm
A comparison:

Saturn with aurora, and image W00074407 of Titan from June 7th.

Just saying...
remcook
It's even visible in the window filters.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=263878
Ian R
Here are two natural(-ish) color views of Titan, the second of which combines the red, green and blue filters on the luminance channel:

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ngunn
It looks like a lenticular cloud stack produced by the upward forcing of pre-exising layers, but that's probably a hopelessly terracentric observation.
titanicrivers
ISS imaged Adiri in this past month during Rev 166- Rev 167. The Huygen’s landing site (red cross below) was included in the T 84 flyby. Stitched together and blended with the eastern portion of the T8 SAR swath a nice correlation of bright albedo patches with bright mesas and craterform structures and dark albedo with dunes can be seen. One of the possible VIMS equatorial lakes (lavender arrow) vs interdune dark material can be seen in the extreme eastern edge of the figure.
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titanicrivers
Here's a view of the probable volcanic construct found on the T83 radar. Image and link found here. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art...cking-heat.html and a link to the abstract http://www.abstractsonline.com/plan/ViewAb...725245476867%7d
Emily has a nice discussion here http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakda...2-dps-day2.html
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Juramike
Also as Planetary Photojournal image release PIA16165: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16165
elakdawalla
In a presentation today Jason Soderblom showed some great VIMS specular reflections from the T83 and T85 flybys. So bright at 5 microns that they saturated the VIMS detector; about twice as bright as adjacent pixels at 2 microns.
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