Titan clouds

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liquidspace2k

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I always thought that Titan was covered with so many Clouds, that it almost likes Venus, so many clouds that you were not able to see its surface. But i keep seeing picture after picture, and picture taken of different days with Titan still looking the same. And if clouds were covering the whole planet/moon the would eventually change. <br /> <br />Then i saw this one picture on the NASA site that talks about the Clouds on the Southern Hemisphere moving and the rest of Titan seen that it doesn't change. <br />To me it only looks like Titan has clouds over the Southern Hemisphere only. <br /><br />When i look at the Pictures of Titan, i'm i really seeing the Surface of Titan or just the clouds of Titan.
 
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Titan isn't covered in clouds the way that Venus is. It does have clouds (more than Mars, less than Earth, I think) but mostly what covers it is a petrochemical fog. It's like the smog from hell. <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /> As it happens, the smog reflects light at all but a very few infrared wavelengths. The pictures you've attached were taken in infrared, which can penetrate the haze.<br /><br />Titan has been imaged at these frequencies by Cassini, Huygens, the Hubble Space Telescope, and a number of Earth-based observatories. This has enabled scientists to track the movement of clouds moving slowly around on Titan. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>
 
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