SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Mars Crater, "Spiders," and More

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Mars Crater,
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June 3, 2009--New images of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, taken by the Cassini probe show reddish clouds unexpectedly lingering over the moon's southern hemisphere well into fall.

"We see lots of clouds during the summer in the southern hemisphere, and this summer weather seems to last into the early fall," Cassini researcher Sebastien Rodriguez, of the University of Paris Diderot, said in a statement. "It looks like Indian summer on Earth, even if the mechanisms are radically different on Titan from those on Earth."
— Image courtesy NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Nantes
 
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