Cassini Uses Dunes To Map Winds on Titan
Credit: NASA/JPL/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
NASA is using radar images of sand dunes to gauge which way the wind blows on Saturn’s smog-shrouded moon Titan, information that will come in handy when planetary scientists send balloon-borne instruments there. Although previous models suggested the big moon’s prevailing winds blow east to west...
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