'At first glance, it is simply extraordinary!'
"At first glance, it is simply extraordinary!"Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is enveloped in a dense, hazy atmosphere — the only moon in the solar system to have one — making it near impenetrable to outside observation.
Scientists suspect its surface flows with liquid methane and other hydrocarbons forming rivers and lakes with uncanny,Now, thanks to NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope, that could all change. Using the Near-Infrared Camera attached to the telescope, scientists have taken fascinating new images of two of Titan's massive methane clouds, offering us a tantalizing glimpse beyond the moon's smoggy facade.
"What a wake-up this morning!" Sebastien Rodriguez, an astronomer and member of the research team from the Universite Paris Cité, wrote in an email to colleagues, as quoted in a NASAHere is Webb’s first look at Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Because Titan has a dense atmosphere, its surface is hidden in visible light.
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