Cat #------Name----Certainty---Long---Lat-----Diameter---Radar Swath---------------------------------------------------------
NL1 .......... Selk ..........1 ......198W 7N ..........80 km .......T36
Broad, flat floor. Bright rim. VIMS shows 3 or 4 separate peak masses, only one near crater center.
Rare case where VIMS image is sharper than radar.
This is NL1 of Neish and Lorenz (2012).
References:
2010: Soderblom, J. and others. Geology of the Selk impact crater region from Cassini VIMS observations. Icarus 208, 905-912.
2010: Martin, E. Decoding a Titan Crater. Planetary Society post.
2012: Neish, C. D., and Lorenz, R. D. Titan’s global crater population: A New assessment. Planet. Space Sci., 60(Jan.), 26–33. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2011.02.016.
NL1 .......... Selk ..........1 ......198W 7N ..........80 km .......T36
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| VIMS colored image and geologic map from Soderblom et al (2010) |
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| Radar T36 (left) and mosaic of unidentified images (right) from USGS Titan map. |
Broad, flat floor. Bright rim. VIMS shows 3 or 4 separate peak masses, only one near crater center.
Rare case where VIMS image is sharper than radar.
This is NL1 of Neish and Lorenz (2012).
References:
2010: Soderblom, J. and others. Geology of the Selk impact crater region from Cassini VIMS observations. Icarus 208, 905-912.
2010: Martin, E. Decoding a Titan Crater. Planetary Society post.
2012: Neish, C. D., and Lorenz, R. D. Titan’s global crater population: A New assessment. Planet. Space Sci., 60(Jan.), 26–33. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2011.02.016.
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