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titanicrivers
Rev 195 included a close flyby of Titan (T93) on 7/26/2013. A WAC view of the N polar sea Ligeia is shown below. Possible small lakes not imaged by Radar appear in the upper left corner of this image which is approximately centered at 80N and 330W.
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remcook
This looks just like some artificial lakes we have here in the Netherlands, coming the excavation of peat smile.gif

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=295863

http://static.nationalgeographic.nl/pictur...lken-248108.jpg

Where is this one? Can't really match it with the radar and ISS maps I find. Looks a bit like punga mare, but I'm not sure.
volcanopele
That's the eastern portion of Ligeia Mare.
titanicrivers
I believe the WAC W00083641 is showing Punga (P), Ligeia (L), Kraken (Kr) Mare and Neagh(N), Sparrow (Sp), Kivu (Ki) lacus and Mayda Insula (M). The WAC was compared to PIA 12811 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA12811.jpg and the names were obtained from http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/N...oboundaries.pdf.
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titanicrivers
QUOTE (remcook @ Jul 29 2013, 12:08 PM) *
Where is this one? Can't really match it with the radar and ISS maps I find. Looks a bit like punga mare, but I'm not sure.

Agree the mare in the upper center of W00083643 looks like Punga at closer range than in the more obvious image W00083641. Rotate 180 deg or so and compare with PIA 12811.
volcanopele
QUOTE (titanicrivers @ Jul 30 2013, 10:48 AM) *
Agree the mare in the upper center of W00083643 looks like Punga at closer range than in the more obvious image W00083641. Rotate 180 deg or so and compare with PIA 12811.

Lol, sorry, it would help if I clicked the link, and not just assumed remcook was talking about the photo you were showing. Yes that's Punga.
titanicrivers
A T93 NAC montage taken on July 27th provides a view of the Titan 'Blandlands' from about 535K km. The vortex can still be seen. A celestia grid was used to approximate the coordinates shown.
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titanicrivers
Although called ‘Blandlands’ the area imaged by Cassini during T93 has interesting topography based on the SAR coverage (SARs of the blandlands in figure left below). T71 and T39 SARs in particular have revealed some spectacular topography and there is some overlap of these swaths (figure on the right). The overlap includes the uncommon geomorphology unit known as labyrinthic terrain, nicely seen in both T39 and T71. The T39 labyrinthic terrain is a high spot (based on Lorenz topo map). T71 nicely complements this notion showing fluvial valleys and possible deltas to the west of the labyrinthic terrain.
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