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Explain it to me like I am 5. Everybody should know what this is about.

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The atmosphere has stuff to do with gas. If the temperature was low enough though, would the gas fall down as liquid? (kbin.social)
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Would the atmosphere cease to exist?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Recorded temperatures at the poles of Titan indicate it's just cold enough for oxygen to condense (-183.1 Deg. C). Unfortunately, even though cold enough, there isn't any free oxygen detected in the atmosphere of the moon. Although it does rain methane, it's predicted there are cryo-volcanoes, and water is as hard as stone. There are really interesting atmospheric phenomena occurring on the moon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cool! The situations on some planets is absolutely insane

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

And Titan is a balmy vacation spot compared to Triton's temperature of about -235 C and Pluto's -229 C.