Spring on Titan brings sunshine and patchy cloud

Titan's northern hemisphere is set for mainly fine spring weather, with polar skies clearing since the equinox in August last year. Cassini's VIMS instrument has been monitoring clouds on Titan continuously since the spacecraft went into orbit around Saturn. Now, a team led by Sebastien Rodriguez (AIM laboratory - Universite Paris Diderot) has used more than 2000 VIMS images to create the first long-term study of Titan's weather that includes the equinox, using observational data. Dr Rodriguez will be presenting the results at the European Planetary Science Congress in Rome on Wednesday 22nd September...

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