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Introduction: We are privileged to live on one of only two worlds in the solar system on which liquids rain onto a solid surface : Titan is the other. Here we show that simple energy balance, numerical models of global and mesoscale circulation, ground- and space-based observations of clouds, and Cassini observations of surface change, are all consistent with Titan rains lasting 2-100 hours occurring at ~100-1000 year inter-vals globally, but 10-100 hours each Titan year (30 Earth years) at the poles. Implications for observations by Cassini and possible future missions are discussed.

Date: 2012-03-26 06:42 pm (UTC)
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So while it rains, even the wet places don't get rain much more often than most Earth deserts?

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