The surface of Titan is irrigated with methane and other hydrocarbons.
Scientists have stated that on Saturn’s moon Titan can go a powerful storm, which irrigate the surface of a celestial body is not water, but methane and other hydrocarbons. The researchers ‘ findings were published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Titanium, as the scientists explain, in many ways very similar to Earth – it rains there is soil erosion, and flow in some geological processes in the subsoil caused by tidal forces and gravitational interaction with Saturn. On Titan, there are seasons, and its weather processes is almost as sophisticated as their counterparts on Earth.
Back in 2011 researchers found out that with the arrival of spring on Titan methane can occur rains and thunderstorms that leave on its surface a kind of rivers. Moreover, computer models of the climate Titanium showed no signs of rain or other signs of precipitation on the surface of the planet should not exist, which has led many scientists to conclude that powerful storms occur on Saturn is extremely rare. Nevertheless, traces of rain on Titan are available, and they need to explain something.
Now, researchers have created a new climate model for Titan, which takes into account the existence of large “ponds” on the surface, able to absorb and conceal the traces of rain and thunderstorms.
Tracing the evolution of the surface virtual “Titan” for about 50 years, scientists have come to the conclusion that a powerful storm is able to wash away the soil, should be conducted on the moon of Saturn fairly regularly. As shown by these calculations, these thunderstorms must occur in polar and temperate latitudes of Titan every year, or every 30 earth years. Even more powerful storm happen about every 20-30 years, and not once in a thousand years, as previously believed by scientists.
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