Rain and frogs on Titan

I've composed two short sequences on the images sent by the HUYGHES probe.

In this animation:
http://img11.exs.cx/img11/3646/anim19pi.gif
there is something like a "frog" making a little "jump" (see the arrow).

In the other
http://img172.exs.cx/img172/6915/anim28oi.gif
there is something which resembles to me like "rain" running over camera lenses, since is very big and out of focus, relatively to the other objects on the image.

I'm almost sure that in the first animation, it's not a raindrop. If so, could it be a "snowball" moved by the "wind"?
Interesting question, at this point, would be:
If it is the wind, why we can see only one object moving?

mmmh!
Why link does not work?
try again:

http://img11.exs.cx/img11/3646/anim19pi.gif
http://img172.exs.cx/img172/6915/anim28oi.gif

dunno if it will work now.

sorry if it results in a double-post!

Bravo, this is brilliant ... this forum is definitively a place were the most interesting findings appear !

Have a great weekend, ERic

That first one is interesting. I'm sure that when we land probes on Titan in the future we'll find tons of interesting stuff. It's basically Earth at a lower temperature.

Well, the 2nd one looks like noise patterns in JPEG tiling. Very subtle pixel differences between frames can account for that pattern.

The First one, however.... your frog, now that looks awful real. BUT, it's generated I think it's called Triplet 126. If you look at this really close, you see that there's a JPEG artifact right on that point where the motion/frog appears to jump. Sadly, it's imaging noise. Perhaps a return of the bunny.

That's strange...

ERic...Isn't this great?!

Whell, I've named it frog but of course it cannot be....
But I disagree a little about the jpeg artifact. Since this "artifact" appear only there between the two "triplets" (yes, you're right it's triplet 124 & 126) and appear to have worked only around those pixels.
AND THIS IS STRANGE
I'm still in the convinciment that the "wind" has moved a kind of snowball.
Buth even this still won't explain why there should be at least ANOTHER light snowball can be moved.
or maybe it's a different thing...

even this would be strange...

Sorry again for this double post, but I recompiled the animation above (the one with the frog, in this way:
1) resized Triplet 124 & 126 multiplying them by a factor of 3 (arbitrary) preserving proportions.
2) changed the contrast
3) re-built the animation
Result:
http://i134.exs.cx/img134/754/animation17fn.gif

Here you can see clearly the vertical jpg artifact is actually FIRMLY there in both photos IN THE SAME POSITION.
Also you can see the "frog" clearly moving along. It's flat-shape appearance, common to lot of other objects there can be also clearly seen.
This can make me the conclusion that the object is a "rock" similar to all the others flat objects can be seen.
BUT MOVING... or JUMPING...

mario...my friend...You have made a great finding!!!

In my impression it looks like a jump from left to right.
What can it be?
Better notify ESA of your work, don't you think?
The Kermit File...

Something changed there:

nope, it's an artifact.

Look along the JPEG tiling line above the "feature." You'll see some other "things" that pop in and out of existence along that line. All along that line there's a tendency towards "bright" thingees. Also, if you pretend your snow-ball isn't there and just look at the jump TO position, that hasn't changed. It's an artifact. Nothing more. About 5 or 6 similar ones in the same comparison frame along the same JPEG vertical line.

Cool indeed,
The first image IMO is too large to be a regular image artifact. If such a large artifact is possible, it would kind of invalidate any purpose to the mission and it's images.

Landing on Titan - Huygens probe stars in new movies
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Are you aware of that the temperature on Titan's surface is approximately −290 °F?

"Are you aware of that the temperature on Titan's surface is approximately −290 °F?"

As a1call said, "cool indeed". But that doesn't rule out "frogs". It only rules out frogs, without the quotation marks.

On Titan, water is just another rock. It can only be incorporated into living beings as solid structures, like bones and teeth. But there are lakes and puddles and clouds on Titan, and it does rain there. Methane is just as ubiquitous there as water is here, and probably just as versatile as liquid water if not more so. I can see no reason why there shouldn't be a biology based on liquid methane instead of on water.

Whatever dudes... More important issues to talk about like Thermal vents and organisms that can live around them. Or Phoenix finding martian bugs in them there ice particles.

Those are NOT jpeg artifacts. titan has a very active atmosphere:

Second animation: Titan has rain much like earth, except it rains liquid methane and not water. You can see liquid methane move across the camera.

First animation: Perhaps it is a light rock or some other object blown by the wind?

notice titan has similar atmospheric pressure compared to earth, 1-1.5 bar. Possible human mission might not required a pressure equalizing suit! Fascinating!

... But a thermal stabilization suit... YES!
It's damn'd cold up there...
It rains what hre is gas!