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Locally enhanced precipitation organized by planetary-scale waves on Titan

Turtle, Elizabeth P.; Mitchell, Jonathan L.; Ádámkovics, Máté +1 more

Saturn's moon Titan exhibits an active weather cycle that involves methane. Equatorial and mid-latitude clouds can be organized into fascinating morphologies on scales exceeding 1,000km (ref. ). Observations include an arrow-shaped equatorial cloud that produced detectable surface accumulation, probably from the precipitation of liquid methane. An…

Equatorial winds on Saturn and the stratospheric oscillation

Fletcher, Leigh N.; West, Robert A.; Porco, Carolyn C. +13 more

The zonal jets on the giant planets have been thought to be stable in time. A decline in the velocity of Saturn's equatorial jet has been identified, on the basis of a comparison of cloud-tracking data across two decades, but the differences in cloud speeds have since been suggested to stem from changes in cloud altitude in combination with vertic…