By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- A new study led by a University of Bristol earth scientist has shown that recently reported unexpected behaviour on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is due to its unique atmospheric chemistry.
Titan’s polar atmosphere recently experiences and unexpected and significant cooling, contrary to all model predictions and differing from the behaviour of all other terrestrial planets in our solar system.
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, is bigger than the planet Mercury, and is the only moon in our solar system to have a substantial atmosphere.
Usually, the high altitude polar atmosphere in a planet’s winter hemisphere is warm because of sinking air …
CITATION: (2017-12-08), Unexpected atmospheric vortex behavior on Saturn’s moon Titan, Health & Medicine Week, 6892, ISSN: 1532-4605, BUTTER® ID: 014812553
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