A 2400km diameter cloud was imaged over the north pole of Titan:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-r ... newsID=720
It's another piece of evidence suggesting that what appear to be lakes in the SAR images of Titan's surface are exactly that.
--Chris
Giant cloud over Titan's north pole
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"These findings reinforce the idea that methane rains down onto the surface to form lakes and then evaporates to form clouds." - article excerpt
Which would give much explanation to the geology perceived in this image that I saw last year... which I found quite interesting.
I've forgotten where I'd read it so I can't quote it here, but quite some time ago Arthur C. Clarke had "proposed" this Titan feature and the mechanisim responsible for creating it... long before any such detailed probe images were available.
Which would give much explanation to the geology perceived in this image that I saw last year... which I found quite interesting.
I've forgotten where I'd read it so I can't quote it here, but quite some time ago Arthur C. Clarke had "proposed" this Titan feature and the mechanisim responsible for creating it... long before any such detailed probe images were available.