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Station Cassini photographed the summer clouds on Titan
Animated images of moving clouds - under habrakatom (3MB or more) i>
Recently in the network has several pictures of clouds on Titan. These images were obtained station Cassini, during overflight hydrocarbon seas of Titan, a moon of Saturn, in the northern hemisphere. These clouds may be the beginning of "summer" storms that are predicted by astronomers for quite some time.
It is worth noting that the images were acquired in July, but now NASA put them in the network, after a detailed study. After analysis it was found that the wind speed on Titan, in the region of study, is 3-4, 5 m / s).
Back in 2004, when Cassini station only to the study of Saturn and Titan, scientists have discovered that at the north pole of Titan is quite a lot of clouds. It was the local "late summer." Clouds were observed until spring, all in the same northern hemisphere. Then, in 2010, was discovered by a violent storm on Saturn, and the clouds are far fewer, they virtually disappeared.
On the basis of the data produced a model of Titan's atmosphere, according to which there are clouds in the summer, with a simultaneous increase in temperature in the region.
It is worth noting that the year on Titan lasts 30 Earth years, so that the duration of each season on Saturn - 7 Earth years. Now a survey of seasonal changes of Titan - one of the main objectives of the Cassini. In the current work, and managed to get a pretty good images of clouds on Titan.
Here is another , particularly "heavy" animated SIFCO which is better not to put in the post.
Via nasa
Source: habrahabr.ru/post/233423/
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