Cassini observations of flow-like features in western Tui Regio, Titan

被引：60

作者：

Barnes, Jason W. ^{[1
]}

Brown, Robert H.

Radebaugh, Jani

Buratti, Bonnie J.

Sotin, Christophe

Le Mouelic, Stephane

Rodriguez, Sebastien

Turtle, Elizabeth P.

Perry, Jason

Clark, Roger

Baines, Kevin H.

Nicholson, Phillip D.

机构：

[1] Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[2] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

[3] Univ Nantes, UMR CNRS, Lab Planetol & Geodynam, F-44322 Nantes, France

[4] US Geol Survey, Denver, CO 80225 USA

[5] Cornell Univ, Dept Astron, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

来源：

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS | 2006年 / 33卷 / 16期

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D O I：

10.1029/2006GL026843

中图分类号：

P [天文学、地球科学];

学科分类号：

07 ;

摘要：

A large (> 3 x 10(4) km(2)), lobate, 5-mu m-bright region seen by Cassini on Titan's leading equatorial region is best explained as a flow field. We discuss observations from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer and Imaging Science Subsystem of the feature and present a map of the field. We establish relative ages of flow features and discuss possible formation mechanisms and the implications of this finding for the evolution of Titan's surface.

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