Moon · orbits Saturn
Titan
It Rains Here Too
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.