What's Up with Titan's Unusual Clouds?

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Start date Oct 29, 2004
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Oct 29, 2004

Cosmo16

Anybody else see this http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/titan_mysteries_041028.html
Seems Titans clouds arn't what they expected.

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Oct 29, 2004

marcus

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great article and pictures, Cosmo. thanks

Oct 30, 2004

cepheid

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Yes, thanks for the great link!

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