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Icy lanes on Titan

Multivariate analysis of infrared hyperspectral images of the Saturnian satellite Titan reveals widespread ice-rich terrains in the tropics. They are related to a variety of contemporary or past geological processes.

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Fig. 1: Infrared colour map of Titan’s hemisphere that contains most of the ice-rich corridor detected by Griffith et al.

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Douté, S. Icy lanes on Titan. Nat Astron 3, 590–591 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0842-8

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