Aiming to settle on Titan in the future? Well, just don’t forget to bring your galoshes and umbrellas as on Saturn’s moon, the morning drizzles are made of methane. A study by scientists in the US has revealed that on Titan, mornings are eclipsed by dreary rainfall of methane which feeds rivers and seas that carve the surface like water does on Earth.
According to the scientists at the University of Berkeley, who have published their findings in the Science journal, “A lot of the methane rain is concentrated in the hills of the (Titan) moon’s large continent, Xanadu.” Until now, however, the scientists were unsure how the methane got from the ground to the sky and vice versa.
Although rain was the obvious candidate, no one had been able to actually see it raining. Titan is about one billion miles from Earth, so charting the local weather is a challenge.
“Titan’s topography could be causing this drizzle. The rain could be caused by processes similar to those on Earth — moisture laden clouds pushed upslope by winds condense to form a coastal rain.
