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Lake-like Feature near the South Pole of Titan
Caption NASA:"This mosaic of image swaths from Cassini's Titan Radar Mapper, taken with the Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR), features a large Dark Region several hundred kilometers across that differs in several significant ways from potential lakes observed on Titan. 
It is not as dark to the radar as many lakes (including lakes seen here), and the nature of the margin is unusual. It has many characteristics in common with lakes, including its channels and interior, yet its differences distinguish it from other similar features. Some similarities are seen with the dark feature in Titan pass T7 (see PIA03563). 

At top (North), the feature has characteristics of a shoreline, with round bay-like margins and channels that drain into it; at left (West) and right (East) it is rimmed by bright, feathery, branching channel-like structures, some of which extend for tens of kilometers. Within the Dark Feature some details can be seen, some of which seem to be extensions of the channels draining into the Dark Feature. 

The mosaic is near the South Pole, centered near 82° South and 205° West. It includes data from Titan passes T39, T55, T57, T58, and T59, collected between December 2007 and July 2009. The individual swaths vary in resolution and illumination angle, so the edges are visible and surface features look somewhat different across swath boundaries, but the regional view can still be understood. As more SAR image swaths of Titan are collected by Cassini, mosaics of those images reveal features that cannot be appreciated within the individual observations".
Parole chiave: Titan

Lake-like Feature near the South Pole of Titan

Caption NASA:"This mosaic of image swaths from Cassini's Titan Radar Mapper, taken with the Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR), features a large Dark Region several hundred kilometers across that differs in several significant ways from potential lakes observed on Titan.
It is not as dark to the radar as many lakes (including lakes seen here), and the nature of the margin is unusual. It has many characteristics in common with lakes, including its channels and interior, yet its differences distinguish it from other similar features. Some similarities are seen with the dark feature in Titan pass T7 (see PIA03563).

At top (North), the feature has characteristics of a shoreline, with round bay-like margins and channels that drain into it; at left (West) and right (East) it is rimmed by bright, feathery, branching channel-like structures, some of which extend for tens of kilometers. Within the Dark Feature some details can be seen, some of which seem to be extensions of the channels draining into the Dark Feature.

The mosaic is near the South Pole, centered near 82° South and 205° West. It includes data from Titan passes T39, T55, T57, T58, and T59, collected between December 2007 and July 2009. The individual swaths vary in resolution and illumination angle, so the edges are visible and surface features look somewhat different across swath boundaries, but the regional view can still be understood. As more SAR image swaths of Titan are collected by Cassini, mosaics of those images reveal features that cannot be appreciated within the individual observations".

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Nome album:MareKromium / Titan: The "Foggy" Moon
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Parole chiave:Titan
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