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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Saturn Moon Has Lake Effect Clouds?


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The Huygens probe, part of NASA's Cassini spacecraft mission, floats in a lake on Saturn's moon Titan in an artist's rendition.

Titan seems to have odd streamers of clouds forming downwind of its lakes, resembling the lake effect seen over North America's Great Lakes, scientists said in December 2008.

Illustration courtesy Gregor Kervina, Ljubljana, Slovenia