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Space/Science » in reply to Saturn and its moon Titan (new reserach into cloud formation on Titan)

Methane rain...

...such a strange little world. Back in the 1970s some early IR observations suggested the surface temperature was ~200 K leading to a model of Titan with a 21 bar N2 atmosphere to make a sufficiently warm greenhouse. Of course now we know they were being misled by Titan's warm stratosphere (~170 K) but it's still a valid atmospheric model. The weird weather that would cause is hard to predict - imagine an ammonia/water ocean with ammonia rain and water snow...

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