Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather

Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather

Most of Titan’s surface is oddly flat and smooth, and it may be because it is coated by as much as a metre of fluffy organic material that snowed down from the icy moon’s thick atmosphere

How Extreme Weather Patterns Could Explain Titan's Mysterious Plains

Images of Titan captured by Cassini Spacecraft NASA/JPL/SSI/Val Klavans Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, features vast plains often covered with up to a meter of light, organic “snow.” Remarkably, approximately 65% of Titan’s surface consists of uniformly flat plains blanketed in a porous layer made of particles deposited from its hazy atmosphere. Due to its dense [...] The post How Extreme Weather Patterns Could Explain Titan’s Mysterious Plains a…