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Home Images captured by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on NASA’s Cassini mission during several Titan flybys in 2009 and 2010, shows clear bright spot that have been interpreted as evidence of dust storms. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University Paris Diderot/IPGP/S. Rodriguez et al. 2018) Images captured by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on NASA's Cassini mission during several Titan flybys in 2009 and 2010, shows clear bright spot that have been interpreted as evidence of dust storms. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University Paris Diderot/IPGP/S. Rodriguez et al. 2018)

Images captured by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on NASA’s Cassini mission during several Titan flybys in 2009 and 2010, shows clear bright spot that have been interpreted as evidence of dust storms. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University Paris Diderot/IPGP/S. Rodriguez et al. 2018)

Images captured by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on NASA's Cassini mission during several Titan flybys in 2009 and 2010, shows clear bright spot that have been interpreted as evidence of dust storms. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University Paris Diderot/IPGP/S. Rodriguez et al. 2018)

Images captured by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on NASA’s Cassini mission during several Titan flybys in 2009 and 2010, shows clear bright spot that have been interpreted as evidence of dust storms. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University Paris Diderot/IPGP/S. Rodriguez et al. 2018)

Artist’s concept of a dust storm on Titan. (IPGP/Labex UnivEarthS/University Paris Diderot – C. Epitalon & S. Rodriguez)
This compilation of images from nine Cassini flybys of Titan in 2009 and 2010 captures three instances when clear bright spots suddenly appeared in images taken by the spacecraft’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University Paris Diderot/IPGP/S. Rodriguez et al. 2018)