Dragon, dog, ball, lying H

Cassini sends back an infrared Titan rotation movie, showing all the funny-looking dark markings in the ESO Very Large Telescope map, and some more. What's that thing near the south pole, a cloud?

I'd vote for naming the big dark regions "Winston", "Niles", and "Rumfoord".

If the Saturn orbit insertion over the next couple of days goes well, Cassini should make a relatively close flyby of Titan around July 4, and we'll see more.

Meanwhile, here's my new desktop picture.

The Keck telescope got some good images too

These are from 2001. Seen in hindsight, some of them clearly show the Lying H ("reminiscent of Valles Marineris") and the Dragon's Head, and that strange persistent cloud on the sunward side of the south pole that Cassini just caught.