Electrified sand

Electrified sand.

Titan

Saturn's largest moon is the only place in the solar system known for having seas of liquid methane and ethane instead of water.

Also, it is home to volcanoes that erupts ice and snow. yes, another amazing thing it.

And now scientists have found that the sand there on Titan is all electrified.

Why so- 

Basically, as the wind on the moon (Titan) kicks up, the sand particles collides with each other resulting into sand being frictionally charged like static electricity.

The same phenomenon also happens on our earth, but, the conditions on Titan helps the electric forces to develop so strongly.

During an experiment at Georgia Tech, a team of researchers took grains of naphthalene and biphenyl(as similar to existing on titan) and kept it in a pressure chamber in order to create moons nitrogen-rich atmosphere.

After shaking for a while (about 20 mins later), the sand started to stick together, & about 3-5% of sand was so electrically charged that it wouldn't even fall out from the tumbler due to their electrostatic force.

This research solved a number of mysteries about titan like the Cassini probe's discovery about massive dunes covering titan, about 300 ft tall and hundreds of miles long.

The another, bizzare thing is that the direction of the wind on titan is from east to west, while the dunes seem to be formed in opposite direction, but, because of strong electrostatic force existing there the sand is held together and wind is not strong enough to move it,

also it is not easy for any spacecraft to come out clean, due to its strong gravity.