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Cassini Science League

Cassini Science League

Cassini Science League endeavors to share with you more of the large and diverse volume of science generated by the scientists on the Cassini mission. Each Science League entry will highlight a science paper – or set of interrelated papers - and provide information on the publication in which the paper appears.

Resolving Rain Over Xanadu

Sep 10, 2009


If methane rain falls on Titan and no one’s there to hear it, does it still pitter-patter when it hits the ground? Maybe, but before scientists get at that existential question, they are first using Cassini data and Earth-based telescopes to discern the nature of rain on Titan.

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