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Titan

It Rains Here Too

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Titan around Saturn, with Enceladus. Drawn to be seen, not to scale: the order and the direction are real.

Titan: the only moon with a thick atmosphere, where methane rain falls into methane lakes.

What the song is built on

  • The only moon with a thick atmosphere, denser than Earth's
  • It rains methane, into lakes and seas of methane
  • The Huygens probe landed there in 2005, the farthest landing ever made
  • NASA's Dragonfly will fly a drone across it in the 2030s

Established astronomy. The music is an interpretation of it — see the curatorial policy.

SoundHazy orange lounge jazz-ambient, muted trumpet, brushed drums, vibraphone, smoky female vocal, 84 BPM, alien and warm

Lyrics
[Intro] Orange sky, soft rain Just not the kind you know [Verse 1] The only moon with weather worth the name Air thicker than the air you breathe Nitrogen and a haze of gold That hides me from the eye beneath It rains here too, but not water Methane falls in heavy drops Into lakes with names like Kraken and Ligeia Where the liquid never stops [Chorus] It rains here too On a world four times as far from light Rivers run, and the shoreline moves And nothing living has come into sight [Verse 2] Huygens fell through me in two thousand five The farthest landing ever made Ninety minutes of sound and photographs Then the cold took what it was paid Gravity so light you'd fly with wings If you could stand the freezing air Minus one seventy-nine and sinking And everything is chemistry out there [Bridge] Dragonfly is coming, rotors and all To hop across my dunes A machine that flies on another world Under my orange moons [Final Chorus] It rains here too On a world four times as far from light Rivers run, and the shoreline moves And nothing living has come into sight [Outro] Orange sky, soft rain Come and see

Titan goes round

Solar System — 2026 Founding Edition — one of 30 songs.