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Last summer, as experts pointed their telescopes towards Saturn's moon Titan, they noticed a peculiar appearance on the surface of the body. It seemed as if a full-scale tropical storm was underway at its equator, in a manner eerily similar to how these formations look like back on Earth. In fact, the entire moon is strange, astronomers say, because the body resembles our planet a lot, yet differs in some key aspects, such as the fact that its natural cycles feature methane instead of oxygen, carbon and water.Recent investigations have revealed that most of the formations we would expect from an environment in deep space are met. For instance, the moon has lakes, clouds and rain, with the sole exception that these are made up of methane and other hydrocarbons, instead of water. The chilling temperatures on Titan, which revolves around its planet and the Sun at a far greater distance than the Earth does, would undoubtedly turn any traces of water on its surface into rock-har!
d ice, LiveScience informs.Before April 2008, when these observations were made, there was no evidence to suggest that methane might be at Titan's equator, although ample evidence of the gas existed elsewhere on the moon. The phenomenon was observed with NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility, in Hawaii, as well as with the Gemini North telescope, whil...
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