ONLY two worlds in the solar system have rain that falls all the way to the ground. We live on one; the other is Saturn’s giant moon Titan. Now findings from the Cassini mission and the Huygens probe that landed on Titan last year are starting to reveal the patterns of rainfall on the moon.
Unmistakable river channels cut into Titan’s icy terrain. So there must be some kind of rainfall, almost certainly drops of liquid methane, to feed the rivers.
“Some of this methane rain on Titan could come from cloudbursts comparable to the fiercest storms on Earth”
Some…
