Titan Is the only World Besides Earth with an Active Liquid Cycle: Clouds Form, Rain Falls, Rivers Carve Channels and Seas Fill and Evaporate — but the Rain Is Liquid Methane and the Ground Beneath It Is Water Ice Frozen Hard as Stone.
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Titan is the only world besides Earth with an active liquid cycle: clouds form, rain falls, rivers carve channels and seas fill and evaporate — but the rain is liquid methane and the ground beneath it is water ice frozen hard as stone.
I keep coming back to Titan because it takes an Earth-like landscape and changes the identity of almost every material in it. There are clouds, rainfall, branching rivers, shorelines and seas. Yet water is not the liquid moving through that landscape. Water is the ground. Methane and ethane do the flowing above it. I wrote a shorter piece earlier asking how a moon about 1.4 billion kilometres from the Sun can have rivers without liquid water. Th…
Titan is the only celestial body other than Earth in our solar system with real rains, rivers, and full-flowing seas, but its landscapes hide a shocking nuance.
The storm in Titan throws rivers of liquid methane on the surface and completely changes the face of this giant moon of the planet Saturn. This crazy climate takes decades to form real heavy clouds, making each great rain a very rare and bizarre astronomical event in space. Why the storm in Titan takes so long to... The post Rain in Titan, but models suggest that some regions wait decades between the storms to then be hit with maximum force appe…
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