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Article: Cassini Radar Sees Bright Flow-Like Feature on Titan.
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- November 9, 2004
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Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A strikingly bright feature that is consistent with an active geology has been seen in one of Cassini's first radar images of Saturn's moon Titan. There are many possibilities for what it is but one of the leading candidates is that it may be a 'cryovolcanic' flow or 'ice volcano'.
"It may be something that flowed," said Cassini radar team member Dr. Ralph Lorenz of the University of Arizona, Tucson. "Or it could be something carved by erosion. It's too early to say."
"But it looks very much like it's something that oozed across the surface. It may be some sort of ...