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SUBMITTER: Teanby NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5698511 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20171121 1
Saturn's largest moon Titan has a substantial nitrogen-methane atmosphere, with strong seasonal effects, including formation of winter polar vortices. Following Titan's 2009 northern spring equinox, peak solar heating moved to the northern hemisphere, initiating south-polar subsidence and winter polar vortex formation. Throughout 2010-2011, strengthening subsidence produced a mesospheric hot-spot and caused extreme enrichment of photochemically produced trace gases. However, in 2012 unexpected a ...[more]