February 5, 2022
Description
Originally published here: Titania with approximate topography scaled one in ten million by tato_713 - Thingiverse
Not to be confused with the moon of Saturn Titan. This model is not based on a topographical map, there is not enough good images to make one, this is based on a high contrast polar map from the USGS site, from which the shadows where interpreted as slopes, so the model is something like an integration of the original one in the spherical elevation coordinate. When the Voyager 2 probe reach Uranus, the system where pointing its north pole of rotation to the Sun. Sometimes, because the south pole or the south hemisphere are defined as the one pointing to the south of the Earth reference, and the right hand rule north pole is 98° tilted (8 degrees to the south), the then visible part is considered to be the south one. I prefer to follow the right hand rule for all my post, so the mapped parts will be the north ones.
The file's names explained: name_1_x_10_y.stl is 1 : x* 10^y. So _1_6_10_7 is 1:600000000 or one in 60 million.
Titania is the biggest moon of Uranus, comparable in size to Rhea. It is less cratered than other moons of Uranus, which could means that it has been resurfaced after its formation. Its surface is striped by canyons and scarps, like many icy moons, because the expansion and contractions of the moon because of the tidal effect of Uranus.
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