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September 25, 2018 11:38 am PDT
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Cassini probe spots dust storm on Titan
Earth, Mars and now Titan form an exclusive club among the solar system's celestial bodies: dust storms.
Read the restTitan is an intriguing world in a way quite similar to Earth. In fact, it is the only moon of the Solar System with a substantial atmosphere and the only celestial body other than our planet where stable bodies of surface liquid are known to still exist.
There is one big difference though: while on Earth such rivers, lakes and seas are filled with water, on Titan it is primarily methane and ethane that flows through these liquid reservoirs. In this unique methane cycle, the hydrocarbon molecules evaporate, condense into clouds and rain back onto the ground.
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