Raindrop sizes similar on Earth and alien worlds

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Raindrop sizes similar on Earth and alien worlds

Image via Unsplash/ Reza Shayestehpour.Earth has raindrops of water, while, on Venus, the rain is made of sulfuric acid. Jupiter rains droplets of helium. Saturn’s moon Titan rains methane. On Neptune and other gas giants, a diamond rain may fall. And, in the case of exoplanet WASP-76b, raindrops are thought to be made of superheated liquid iron. But here’s one thing these different types of raindrops might have in common: their size. A new stud…