Titan is the only other body in the Solar System with seas, rivers and lakes, although they are not made of water, but of hydrocarbons, such as methane.
Its unique properties are worth studying in detail, and since the Cassini mission is no longer exploring Saturn, it’s up to telescopes to keep an eye on it. Both the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Keck observatory here on Earth have now studied the frigid world, with incredible results.
The two world-class telescopes were able to see Titan’s seas, as well as the clouds. The JWST images were taken on November 4. The team noticed two clouds in the atmosphere near the North Pole of the moon.
Researchers were interested in knowing if they could trace the evolution of these clouds; They were able to secure the observation time at Keck and saw them again 54 and 54 hours later.
Titan is the only moon in the solar system with such an atmosphere dense. In
“Here are some of the most exciting facts we’ve seen from Titan since the end from the Cassini-Huygens mission in 2017, and some of the best we’ll get before NASA’s Dragonfly arrives in
“The analysis should really help us learn a lot about Titan’s atmosphere and weather,” she added.
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