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Titan was the topic of discussion for the OPAG Meeting held in Arlington, VA on October 6-7. A couple of mission concepts were proposed.
Methane monsoons may lash Titan :shock:
The team observed "vigorous centres" in the clouds as they rose from a height of 23 kilometres to 44 km at speeds of several tens of metres per second. Then, the cloud tops dissipated or fell 10 kilometres over the next 30 minutes. This suggests the clouds "evolve convectively and dissipate through rain," reported Caitlin Griffith of the University of Arizona on Thursday.
I'm looking for more details as to Oppy's planned drive (still in the plans?) to Victoria Crater. No such luck and updated news items are currently coming in at trickle rate it seems.
Check out the last page on the following link (was posted at another forum) - gives you a possible route to Victoria Crater.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/apio/pdf/ … 5.pdf]Mars Express OMEGA and Opportunity Coordination
On top of that you have the possible detection of Formaldehyde.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7014]A whiff of life on the Red Planet
Now Formisano is saying that there is much more methane on Mars. He bases this on the detection of a different gas, formaldehyde, by the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS), an instrument on Mars Express that he runs. Formisano averaged thousands of measurements taken by the PFS and calculated that the Martian atmosphere has formaldehyde in concentrations of 130 parts per billion.
Very exciting news.
No Lakes on Titan? Too Soon to Tell
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