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Rare Rain on Titan; Once Every 1,000 Years
Monday, March 26, 2012 17:29
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Lakes on Titan. Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI
Even though there are lakes and rivers of liquid hydrocarbons on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan, the rains that feed them may come few and far between. According to data gathered by NASA’s Cassini mission, parts of Titan might not see rain for more than 1,000 years.
And according to Dr. Ralph Lorenz, from the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUALP), a new mission to Titan is exactly what’s needed to get to the bottom of this.
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