{"id":151683,"date":"2022-12-02T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T21:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/in-photos-webb-telescopes-first-look-at-titan-saturns-giant-moon-that-may-once-have-have-hosted-life"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T21:25:18","slug":"in-photos-webb-telescopes-first-look-at-titan-saturns-giant-moon-that-may-once-have-have-hosted-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/in-photos-webb-telescopes-first-look-at-titan-saturns-giant-moon-that-may-once-have-have-hosted-life","title":{"rendered":"In Photos: Webb Telescope\u2019s First Look At Titan, Saturn\u2019s Giant Moon That May Once Have Have Hosted Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msiLWxDayuA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii have together captured Saturn\u2019s largest moon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jamiecartereurope\/2019\/04\/30\/welcome-to-titan-saturns-deranged-earth-like-moon-beginning-to-show-signs-of-life\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jamiecartereurope\/2019\/04\/30\/welcome-to-titan-saturns-deranged-earth-like-moon-beginning-to-show-signs-of-life\/\" aria-label=\"Titan\">Titan<\/a> in near-infrared.<\/p>\n<p>The new images reveal clouds in the northern hemisphere near Kraken Mare, the largest known methane sea on the giant moon\u2019s surface. Titan is the only other body in the solar system that has rivers, lakes and seas, though instead of water they flow with liquid methane and ethane. These hydrocarbons\u2014as well as water and ammonia\u2014also produce clouds and rain on the giant moon.<\/p>\n<p>JWST\u2019s image\u2014from November 4, 2022 and published for the first time this week\u2014revealed two clouds in the atmosphere, so scientists then pointed the largest optical telescope on Earth, the Keck Telescope, at Titan just 30 hours later to confirm their presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii have together captured Saturn\u2019s largest moon Titan in near-infrared. The new images reveal clouds in the northern hemisphere near Kraken Mare, the largest known methane sea on the giant moon\u2019s surface. Titan is the only other body in the solar system that has rivers, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151683","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}