Thursday, December 14

Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer detects vast polar ethane cloud on Titan

 Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) has detected what appears to be a massive ethane cloud surrounding Titan's north pole. The cloud might be snowing ethane snowflakes into methane lakes below.


Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer detects vast polar ethane cloud on Titan from PhysOrg.com

Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) has detected what appears to be a massive ethane cloud surrounding Titan's north pole. The cloud might be snowing ethane snowflakes into methane lakes below.[...]

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