Killer Ice Fall spotted on Titan
Nov 10, 2004 16: 54 EST
In a press release November 8, the European Space Agency (ESA) revealed that a first ever radar image of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft show "a striking bright feature stretches from upper left to lower right across this image, with connected 'arms' to the east."
Comparisons with other features and data from other instruments will help to determine whether this is a 'cryovolcanic' flow, where water-rich liquid has welled up from Titan's warm interior. An ice-volcanoe!
The image covers an area about 150 kilometers square, and is centered at about 45 degrees north, 30 degrees west in the northern hemisphere of Titan, over a region that has not yet been imaged optically. The smallest details seen on the image are around one kilometer across.
And did you know that Saturn sings? It's the ice rings that give off strange tunes, each very distinct from the other...
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a co-operative project of NASA, ESA and ASI, the Italian space agency.
Radar image of the suspected ice fall on Titan, courtesy ESA.
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