It has been discovered that there is a methane rain on Titan. Obviously this is not a real picture but it is a very cool illustration by a very talented artist about an awesome phonemnonnn. Titan is in fact, Saturn's largest moon. These rain storms are seasonal, and have been found to be the cause of the darkening on Titan's surface. These showers were seen by the Cassini spacecraft,. along the moon's equatorial regions. Not only is there methane rain on Titan's surface, but there is also methane lakes and rivers! The recent weather on Titan is comparable to the weather experienced in our tropics. The temperature on Titan is -290 degrees fareignhight, so obviously this rain is very different from the rain we experience on our home planet, Earth. In the nitrogen thick atmosphere of Titan, lighting from clouds could also be a possiblity, yet there is no direct evidence we have found to support this.
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