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Earth-like Clouds Discovered on Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon

February 4th, 2011

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Although Saturn's largest moon, Titan looks like a hazy orange ball made of tiny droplets of hydrocarbons along with other, more noxious chemicals, it is  the only moon in our solar system with a serious atmospheret. This atmosphere comes complete with lightning, drizzle and occasionally a big, downpour of methane or ethane-hydrocarbons.

Now, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed thin, wispy clouds of ice particles, similar to Earth's cirrus clouds, according to Carrie Anderson and Robert Samuelson at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The findings, published this week in the journal Icarus, were made using the composite infrared spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.


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