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Saturn’s moon Titan has Earth-like weather powered by methane. New observations reveal rising clouds and rare molecules.
We tend to think of the weather as mundane, the sort of boring things you talk about when you have nothing else to say, but ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan, capturing the first evidence of ...
On Titan, clouds of methane unleash a cold, oily rain—very different from the water-based downpours we see on Earth. For the ...
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Their study, published in the journal *Geophysical Research Letters*, shows that the threshold theory, used to study Earth's ...
Titan is a strange world, at -300 degrees Fahrenheit, and shrouded in a jaundiced smog. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is ...
Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have found the first evidence of methane cloud ...
Astronomers say they have spotted evidence of active weather patterns on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, helping to shape ...
The two observatories, one in deep space and the other in Hawai’i have observed clouds in the northern hemisphere of Titan – ...
Scientists have known for a while that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has rivers and seas of liquid methane on its surface. But it's strangely lacking in deltas, a new study suggests.
"Titan is the only other place in our solar system that has weather like Earth, in the sense that it has clouds and rainfall onto a surface," said Conor Nixon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...