Stunning new photos show what clouds look like on Saturn's moon

By: Maria Mercedes Galuppo

We all know what clouds look like up in our sky, but clouds on Saturn's largest moon look quite different.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught clouds of methane moving across the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. In the time-lapse video, you can see clouds coming in and out of the movie sequence that was composed of photos taken every 20 minutes for 11 hours.


Image: NASA

According to NASA, these kind of time-lapse images help scientists study the dynamic of the clouds as they develop, move over the surface and fade.

Titan is the only known place in the solar system to host liquid seas and lakes. But they are nothing like the ones in earth, these are composed of methane and ethane, two elements found in gas form on our planet.

The mission will continue monitoring Titan's weather around the 2017 summer solstice.

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