Discovery of lake-effect clouds on Titan
Images from instruments on Cassini as well as from telescopes on the ground reveal the presence of sporadic small-scale cloud activity in the cold late-winter north polar of Saturn’s large moon Titan. These clouds lie underneath the previously discovered uniform polar cloud attributed to a quiescent...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.250.9799 2023-05-15T17:39:48+02:00 Discovery of lake-effect clouds on Titan M. E. Brown E. L. Schaller H. G. Roe C. Chen J. Roberts R. H. Brown K. H. Baines R. N. Clark The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2009 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.250.9799 http://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.1841v1.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.250.9799 http://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.1841v1.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.1841v1.pdf text 2009 ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T19:44:53Z Images from instruments on Cassini as well as from telescopes on the ground reveal the presence of sporadic small-scale cloud activity in the cold late-winter north polar of Saturn’s large moon Titan. These clouds lie underneath the previously discovered uniform polar cloud attributed to a quiescent ethane cloud at ~40 km and appear confined to the same latitudes as those of the largest known hydrocarbon lakes at the north pole of Titan. The physical properties of these clouds suggest that they are due to methane convection and condensation. Such convection has not been predicted for the cold winter pole, but can be caused by a process in many ways analogous to terrestrial lake-effect clouds. The lakes on Titan are a key connection between the surface and the meteorological cycle. 1 Text North Pole Unknown North Pole |
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Images from instruments on Cassini as well as from telescopes on the ground reveal the presence of sporadic small-scale cloud activity in the cold late-winter north polar of Saturn’s large moon Titan. These clouds lie underneath the previously discovered uniform polar cloud attributed to a quiescent ethane cloud at ~40 km and appear confined to the same latitudes as those of the largest known hydrocarbon lakes at the north pole of Titan. The physical properties of these clouds suggest that they are due to methane convection and condensation. Such convection has not been predicted for the cold winter pole, but can be caused by a process in many ways analogous to terrestrial lake-effect clouds. The lakes on Titan are a key connection between the surface and the meteorological cycle. 1 |
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