Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Palette Cleanser?! Let's Catch Up -- On The Science Of Rain, Over Frigid Northern Ocean-Shores, On Saturn's Moon, Titan...


We find that the endless bouts of lawlessness. . . fatigue our sensibilities -- so we will now venture off. . . into space, with NASA's JWST -- for some planetary learnings, this rainy mid-afternoon. [More backgrounders, here.]

Do enjoy the excellent video below, on it all:

. . .Of all the alien worlds in our solar system, one in particular resembles our home planet. Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is the only other place we know of where you could walk along the seashore or stand in the rain. However, Titan’s exotic seas and its oily raindrops are not made of water, but of the natural gases methane and ethane, super-chilled into liquid form. Now, NASA’s [JWST] has revealed a crucial, missing step in how ethane is formed, and its discovery could tell us about the future of Titan’s atmosphere. . . .




Onward, forever grinning. . . .

नमस्ते

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