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Thread: Methane monsoons may lash Titan

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    Post Methane monsoons may lash Titan

    Brief but powerful methane downpours may strike Saturn's moon every few hundred years - astronomers think they have already seen
    thunderstorms
    http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn7975

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    I must say that I'm a little annoyed at the article mentioning the possibility of thunderstorms on Titan. Have any whistlers been detected, as with Saturn? I have yet to hear if such is this case. It seems ridiculous to me to make those kind of speculations without definitive proof. Large rain clouds don't necessarily mean thunderstorms.

    The article in really stretching it by making such a mention, in my opinion.

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