Bright patches of methane have been detected swirling around the southern pole of Titan, settling a longstanding question as to whether Saturns largest moon possesses clouds, according to a new study. The discovery was made with two large telescopes in Hawaii, using new adaptive optics to distinguish features on the haze-shrouded satellite that even a visiting spacecraft had missed.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/12/19/titan.clouds/index.html
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