Titan?s atmosphere a turbulent place

Scientists begin to ask: How?s the weather on Titan? Studying a thin cloud layer of methane in the largely nitrogen and argon atmosphere of Titan, scientists at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics laboratory in Laurel are finding ways to understand turbulence and other weather phenomena on Earth.

“Titan is one place in the solar system where things are happening like things that happen on earth, but in some systems it?s taken to extremes,” Ralph Lorenz said. “If we could build computer weather models that are mostly correct for the Earth and for Titan, we?d have much better modeling capabilities.”