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Arrow in Titan's sky

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An exotic arrow-shaped cloud was discovered in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan last year. Numerical modelling shows how a large-scale atmospheric wave can naturally shape tropical clouds to such an arrow.

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Figure 1: Cloud in Titan's tropics.

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  1. Tetsuya Tokano is at the Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Köln, Germany,

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Tokano, T. Arrow in Titan's sky. Nature Geosci 4, 582–583 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1236

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