January 24, 2012

A comparison between the two kinds of Titan dunes and the Earth ones in desert of Oman and Kalahari (Image NASA/JPL-Caltech, and NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team)

New analysis of radar data from the Cassini mission in a partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency concerning Titan, the largest of Saturn’s moons, have revealed an extensive presence of dunes that show changes with the passage of time and are different depending on their latitude and altitude.