List of geological features on Titan
- List of geological features on Titan
This is a list of named geological features on Saturn's moon Titan. Official names for these features have only been announced very recently, as Titan's surface was virtually unknown before the arrival of the "Cassini" probe. Some features were known by informal nicknames beforehand; these names are noted where appropriate.
Albedo features
Albedo features on Titan are name after sacred or enchanted places in world mythologies and literature.
Bright albedo features
Craters
Craters on Titan are named after deities of wisdom.
Flumina
A flumen is a feature that looks like a channel carved by liquid. There is one named group of flumina on Titan.
Maculae
Titanian maculae (dark spots) are named after deities of happiness, peace, and harmony in world mythology.
Informal names for unnamed features
Because the exact nature of many surface features remain mysterious, a number of features have not yet received formal names and are known by nicknames. In most cases, indications of brightness and darkness refer not to visible light, but to the infrared images used to look through Titan's obscuring haze. "Cassini" has also begun to map portions of Titan using radar.
*'The Sickle': a large, dark, sickle-shaped region identified by the Hubble Space Telescope.
*'Dog and Ball', 'Dragon's Head': large, dark, roughly equatorial regions identified by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, named for their distinctive shapes.
*'Si-Si the Cat': a region that appears dark in radar images, named after a researcher's daughter who said it looked like a cat.
ee also
*Lakes of Titan
External links
* [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/jsp/FeatureTypes2.jsp?system=Saturn&body=Titan&systemID=6&bodyID=30&sort=AName&show=Fname&show=Lat&show=Long&show=Diam&show=Stat&show=Orig USGS: Titan nomenclature]
* [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/jsp/SystemSearch2.jsp?System=Saturn USGS links to PDF maps with nomenclature]
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