Inizio Registrati Login

Elenco album Ultimi arrivi Ultimi commenti Più viste Più votate Preferiti Cerca

Inizio > SOLAR SYSTEM > Titan: The "Foggy" Moon
Ritorna alla pagina delle miniature FILE 119/426 Torna all'inizio Guarda foto precedente Guarda foto successiva Salta alla fine
Ontario Lacus
This image of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake on the Southern Hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan, was obtained by NASA's Cassini Spacecraft on Jan. 12, 2010. 
North is up in this image. Objects appear bright in this radar image when they are tilted toward the Spacecraft or have rough surfaces. The lake surface appears dark because it is smooth. The Northern Shoreline features flooded River Valleys and Hills as high as about 1 Km (3000 feet). 
A smooth, wave-sculpted Shoreline, like that seen on the S/Eastern side of Lake Michigan, can here be seen on the N/Eastern side of the lake. 
Smooth lines parallel to the current shoreline could be formed by low waves over time, which were likely driven by winds sweeping in from the West or South-West. 
The S/Eastern shore features a round-headed Bay intruding into the shore. The liquid-filled depressions appear to be relatively recent.

The middle part of the Western Shoreline shows the first well-developed Delta observed on Titan. The shape of the Delta shows that liquid flowing down from a higher plain has switched Channels on its way into the Lake, forming at least two lobes. Examples of this kind of Channel switching and wave-modified deltas can be found on Earth at the Southern end of Lake Albert between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa and the remains of an ancient lake known as Megachad in the African country Chad.

Titan is the only other world in our Solar System known to have standing bodies of liquid on its Surface. Because Surface temperatures at the Poles average a chilly 90 Kelvin (about minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit), the liquid is a combination of Methane, Ethane and Propane, rather than water. 

Ontario Lacus has a surface area of about 15.000 square Km (approx. 6000 square miles), slightly smaller than its terrestrial namesake, Lake Ontario.
Parole chiave: Titan

Ontario Lacus

This image of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake on the Southern Hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan, was obtained by NASA's Cassini Spacecraft on Jan. 12, 2010.
North is up in this image. Objects appear bright in this radar image when they are tilted toward the Spacecraft or have rough surfaces. The lake surface appears dark because it is smooth. The Northern Shoreline features flooded River Valleys and Hills as high as about 1 Km (3000 feet).
A smooth, wave-sculpted Shoreline, like that seen on the S/Eastern side of Lake Michigan, can here be seen on the N/Eastern side of the lake.
Smooth lines parallel to the current shoreline could be formed by low waves over time, which were likely driven by winds sweeping in from the West or South-West.
The S/Eastern shore features a round-headed Bay intruding into the shore. The liquid-filled depressions appear to be relatively recent.

The middle part of the Western Shoreline shows the first well-developed Delta observed on Titan. The shape of the Delta shows that liquid flowing down from a higher plain has switched Channels on its way into the Lake, forming at least two lobes. Examples of this kind of Channel switching and wave-modified deltas can be found on Earth at the Southern end of Lake Albert between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa and the remains of an ancient lake known as Megachad in the African country Chad.

Titan is the only other world in our Solar System known to have standing bodies of liquid on its Surface. Because Surface temperatures at the Poles average a chilly 90 Kelvin (about minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit), the liquid is a combination of Methane, Ethane and Propane, rather than water.

Ontario Lacus has a surface area of about 15.000 square Km (approx. 6000 square miles), slightly smaller than its terrestrial namesake, Lake Ontario.

Titan-Island-PIA09180.jpg Titan-Islands-IMG001328-br500.jpg Titan-Lakes-Ontario_Lacus-00-PIA13172.jpg Titan-Lakes-Ontario_Lacus-01-PIA13173.jpg Titan-Lakes-South_Polar_Lake-00-PIA06240.jpg
Informazioni sul file
Nome del file:Titan-Lakes-Ontario_Lacus-00-PIA13172.jpg
Nome album:MareKromium / Titan: The "Foggy" Moon
Valutazione (5 voti):55555(Mostra dettagli)
Parole chiave:Titan
Copyright:NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute e Paolo C. Fienga/Lunexit Team per il processing addizionale e la colorizzazione
Dimensione del file:320 KiB
Data di inserimento:Lug 16, 2010
Dimensioni:1412 x 1276 pixels
Visualizzato:68 volte
URL:https://www.lunexit.it/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=27125
Preferiti:Aggiungi ai preferiti

Commento 1 a 1 di 1
Pagina: 1

paolocf1963   [Mag 24, 2013 at 04:58 PM]
PAZZESCO! Andate qui http : // photojournal. jpl. nasa. gov/ catalog/ PIA17031 e poi ditemi se è vero o non è vero che la NASA ci scopiazza!!!!! PAZZESCO. Almeno ci rendessero l'Onore di un credito.... Mi viene il voltastomaco. - paolo

Commento 1 a 1 di 1
Pagina: 1

 
 

Powered by Coppermine Photo Gallery