It appears flash flooding has paved streambeds in the Xanadu region of Saturn’s moon Titan with thousands of sparkling crystal balls of ice, according to scientists with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.

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al0ha writes “In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known ‘northern lights’ in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness high above the ringed planet. The new video reveals changes in Saturn’s aurora every few minutes, in high resolution, with three dimensions. The images show a previously unseen vertical profile to the auroras, which ripple in the video like tall (more…)