Dusty storm detected on Saturn's Moon Titan: NASA

A dust storm rises from the sand dunes located around the Titan's equator. Significantly, the Titan in the Solar System is the only planet where there is an atmosphere.

Dusty storm detected on Saturn's Moon Titan: NASA

WASHINGTON DC: Scientists have discovered the dust storm on Saturn's largest moon 'Titan' using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. NASA said in a statement that after this Earth and Mars after the discovery, Titan has become the third planet/satellite of the Solar System, where a dust storm has been detected. This discovery is published in Nature Geoscience Journal. In it, scientists have said that Titan is very similar to the Earth in many ways. Astronomer Sebastian Rodriguez of Paris's Diderot University of France told that they can add another similarity with Earth and Mars, that is the walking of a dust storm.

A dust storm rises from the sand dunes located around the Titan's equator. Significantly, the Titan in the Solar System is the only planet where there is an atmosphere. Just so, the difference is that the rivers, which are present on the surface of the Earth, are filled with water and oceans, while on Titan, it is primarily methane and ethane that flows through liquid reserves.

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Hydrocarbon molecules are vaporized in this unique cycle, transforms into clouds and then rain on the surface. The scientists initially identified three unusual bright things through infrared photographs taken from Cassini. They thought that this would be the cloud of methane. However, when investigating, it was discovered that they were completely different things.

Organic dust is formed when the organic molecules made from sunlight and exposure to methane become large in size to fall on the surface. Due to the presence of strong hailstorm that produces a dust storm, it means that the sand dunes covering Titan's equatorial areas are still active and there is constant change in them. The Cassini spacecraft was removed from work in space on September 15 last year and thus ended his 19-year space journey.