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Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time [nasa.gov]

Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed what appear to be giant dust storms in equatorial regions of Saturn's moon Titan. The discovery, described in a paper published on Sept. 24 in Nature Geoscience, makes Titan the third Solar System body, in addition to Earth and Mars, where dust storms have been observed.

Images [nasa.gov].

Also at ESA [esa.int].

See also: Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas [nasa.gov]

Observational evidence for active dust storms on Titan at equinox [nature.com] (DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0233-2) (DX [doi.org])

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