April showers

In September 2010, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft observed liquid falling on the equatorial deserts of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan this was equivalent to early April in Titan’s year.

When rain falls in Spain
It all falls* on the plain,
And (in Spanish) they say, “Look, it’s raining!”
But they shouldn’t complain
Of their watery rain,
For on Titan they’d say, “It’s methaning!

* (mainly)

[Image (artist’s impression): SciNews]
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