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Titan’s Polar Vortex

Titan

Only a true lover of planetary exploration can get excited about an image like this. Titan is definitely one of the most exciting places in the solar system despite it’s almost total lack of discernible details either surface or in cloud structure. So like Uranus and Venus most images of these locales look something like smooth monochromatic tennis balls without the white lines.

Titan’s polar vortex in color

Above is a color image of the vortex in more detail. Scientists are still unsure of the process that causes this to occur. However, similar phenomenon have been seen before — most notably on Titan’s parent planet, Saturn.

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3 Responses to “Titan’s Polar Vortex”

  1. thomas Says:
    November 4th, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    Maybe I was a little hard on Titan. It does have that gorgeous upper atmosphere purple haze at the edges of most images.

  2. who knows Says:
    November 8th, 2012 at 7:02 pm

    the vortex is very interesting if you look at the first picture it seems like it is elevated almost at the edge of the atmosphere, which is strange most cloud formations and visible storms or whatever that is are clearly at lower elevations, I wonder how big titan is and how large its atmosphere is

  3. Jeffrey Stopple Says:
    November 12th, 2012 at 12:46 pm

    (Glad to see you posting again!)

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