This colour mosaic includes three images captured during the 17th flyby of Titan by the Cassini spacecraft on 7 September 2006. Elongated clouds at mid-southern latitudes are visible in bright bluish tones (Image: NASA/JPL/U of Arizona/U of Nantes)
UNRELIABLE weather forecasts are not restricted to Earth. On Saturn’s giant moon Titan, the seasons should now be turning, but summer in its southern hemisphere is defying predictions by refusing to end.
The Cassini space probe has been monitoring Titan since 2004, but as the moon’s year lasts 30 Earth years, it has only ever seen one season. The equinox marking the end of summer in the…
