{"id":100066,"date":"2019-12-23T11:43:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T19:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-mapped-titans-awe-inspiring-terrain-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2019-12-23T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T19:43:56","slug":"scientists-mapped-titans-awe-inspiring-terrain-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-mapped-titans-awe-inspiring-terrain-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists mapped Titan\u2019s awe-inspiring terrain for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-mapped-titans-awe-inspiring-terrain-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Navigating Titan, Saturn\u2019s largest moon, is a challenge. Just getting close is hard enough \u2014 it\u2019s hundreds of millions of miles away, after all. But let\u2019s suppose either a robot or a human lands on the surface of the only other body in the Solar System known to have liquid on its surface. They\u2019d need a map \u2014 and fortunately, NASA has one ready to go should the occasion ever arise.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2019, scientists made the first ever map detailing the moon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-019-0917-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complicated \u2014 and terrifying \u2014 terrain<\/a>. It reveals a moon filled with weird and wonderful geography, including dunes, liquid methane lakes, plains, labyrinthine canyons, and craters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is #10 on Inverse\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/61369-20-wildest-space-discoveries-2019\">20 wildest space discoveries of 2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigating Titan, Saturn\u2019s largest moon, is a challenge. Just getting close is hard enough \u2014 it\u2019s hundreds of millions of miles away, after all. But let\u2019s suppose either a robot or a human lands on the surface of the only other body in the Solar System known to have liquid on its surface. They\u2019d need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}