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Titan's aurora.

When Saturn's moon Titan passes through Saturn's magnetic-tail
during its circuit around the planet the moon's upper atmosphere
would be intensely bombarded by high-energy particles spiraling
along the Saturnian Magnetic lines of force.
What beautiful aurora they would produce in Titan's atmosphere!

Imagine you are an astronaut, 500 years from now, chugging along in an insulated
boat on one of Titan's northern methane lakes, and you look up to see beautiful
pulsating and undulating sheets of colorful lights displayed in the Titanian upper-atmosphere
at dawn or dusk.
I'd want to see something like that.

Titan is not a dull world as some people say.

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