With its thick atmosphere, rippling lakes, and eroded landscapes, Saturn's giant moon Titan has a lot in common with Earth. In August scientists added another similarity shared by these unlikely siblings: stormy weather. Using the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and Gemini North Observatory, planetary scientist Emily Schaller of the University of Arizona identified a massive storm that appeared near Titan's equator. "For so long, it was cloud-free," says Schaller, who devoted her doctoral research to a largely fruitless search for Titanic clouds.
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