Re: Cassini Image: Getting Closer To Titan

From: Mike Dworetsky (platinum198_at_pants.btinternet.com)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:18:05 +0000 (UTC)

"Tequila" <tequila@mockingbird.com> wrote in message
news:40DD4356.6EF4C416@mockingbird.com...
> Does Titan have any detectable surface features?
>

Yes, that's what they are seeing in the pictures (ref the web link in the
original post). Infrared wavelengths can penetrate the atmospheric haze and
the markings are on the surface, not in the clouds. They also further
reduced the scattered light by using a polarizing filter.

This can also be done from the ground, but not with anything like this good
resolution. 

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Mike Dworetsky
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