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The atmosphere of Titan is the dense layer of gases surrounding Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.Titan is the only natural satellite of a planet in the Solar System with an atmosphere that is denser than the atmosphere of Earth and is one of two moons with an atmosphere significant enough to drive weather (the other being the atmosphere of Triton). [4]
Cassini did not detect any lightning in Titan's atmosphere, [39] though lightning could still be present if it was too weak to be detected. [40] Recent computer simulations have shown that under certain circumstances streamer discharges, the early stages of lightning discharges, may be formable on Titan. [41]
Whether there is life on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is currently an open question and a topic of scientific assessment and research. Titan is far colder than Earth, but of all the places in the Solar System, Titan is the only place besides Earth known to have liquids in the form of rivers, lakes, and seas on its surface.
Its atmosphere is mainly composed of hydrogen and helium, like that of Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet. But WASP-121b's atmosphere is not like anything ever seen before.
Titans obliquity at 26.7° is high enough to cause seasonal variations within the stratospheric spin. [4] Attempts to model super-rotation on the gas giants, including Titan, has been abundant. The first observations of Titan in the 1980's revealed little information about circulation within the atmosphere due to the low contrast photochemical ...
This acts to reduce solar energy reaching the surface and lets infrared energy escape, cooling Titan's surface. Titan has both a greenhouse and an anti-greenhouse effect which compete with one another. The greenhouse effect warms Titan by 21 K while the anti-greenhouse effect cools Titan by 9 K, so the net warming is 12 K (= 21 K - 9 K). [3] [4]
This classification also does not consider ultra-hot Jupiters, which do have nightside clouds. [100] Relative cloud-free atmospheres also exist. [101] Similar to brown dwarfs the composition at hotter temperature (class V or >900 K) [51] is a thick iron cloud deck with silicate clouds (quartz, corundum, fosterite and/or enstatite) on top. This ...
A U.S. company’s lunar lander will soon burn up in Earth’s atmosphere after a failed moonshot. Astrobotic Technology said its lander is now headed back toward Earth from the vicinity of the moon.