Having a little fun in POV with one of the images available from the
Cassini-Huygens space mission web site.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

Merely a rough estimate of how Titan looked to the spacecraft in polarized
infrared light. As the description states for the original, this is a mosaic
of 16 images. Blue areas are outside those photos, latitude and longitude
lines added for this animation too. 0 and/or 360 degrees longitude is where
the largest V shape is at, in the northern hemisphere, and a brightness
change can be seen along it. I didn't label anything so I'll say that the
brightest area is nicknamed Xanadu.

Rendered in a quick 6 minutes on my 2GHz P4 notebook, 150 frames at 320x240
resolution, AA of 0.1 and sampling depth 4, then turned into an MPEG using
good old CMPEG.

Hopefully I won't be boring anyone with this one, it's rather simple.  :-)
-- 
Bob H.
http://www.3digitaleyes.com

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