589559 external_news 1490900967 1490901026 Particles that cover the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, are electrically charged and can get clingy -- much like packing peanuts cling to things on Earth....“If you grabbed piles of grains and built a sand castle on Titan, it would perhaps stay together for weeks due to their electrostatic properties,” says Josef Dufek, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who co-led a study on the sands of Titan. Dufek is in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. EAS doctoral student Josef Mendez Harper is the study's lead author; EAS graduate student George McDonald is a co-author. 

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