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Titan's Methane Clouds

Caption: Orange clouds (at lower center) on Saturn's moon Titan as seen by the Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer after closest approach on a July 22, 2006 flyby. University of Chicago scientists are studying the dynamics behind Titan's methane clouds.

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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