{"id":151685,"date":"2022-12-02T15:25:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T21:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-captures-signs-of-weird-weather-on-titan-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:25:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T21:25:29","slug":"nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-captures-signs-of-weird-weather-on-titan-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-captures-signs-of-weird-weather-on-titan-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope Captures Signs Of Weird Weather On Titan For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-captures-signs-of-weird-weather-on-titan-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturn\u2019s 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> is one of the weirdest and most intriguing worlds in our solar system. It is the only place we know of in the universe for sure beyond Earth that has rivers, lakes and larger bodies of liquid, but on Titan these features are filled with flammable hydrocarbons like methane and ethane.<\/p>\n<p>Studying Titan in depth has been difficult due to a thick atmosphere of clouds and haze, but<a href=\"https:\/\/webb.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/webb.nasa.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope\"> NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> (JWST) is giving scientists their first detailed glimpse of those clouds, and by extension, the weather patterns at work on this unique world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had waited for years to use Webb\u2019s infrared vision to study Titan\u2019s atmosphere,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/contents\/early-highlights\/webb-keck-telescopes-team-up-to-track-clouds-on-saturns-moon-titan\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/contents\/early-highlights\/webb-keck-telescopes-team-up-to-track-clouds-on-saturns-moon-titan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"said JWST Principal Investigator Conor Nixon\">said JWST Principal Investigator Conor Nixon<\/a>. \u201cDetecting clouds is exciting because it validates long-held predictions from computer models about Titan\u2019s climate, that clouds would form readily in the mid-northern hemisphere during its late summertime when the surface is warmed by the Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturn\u2019s moon Titan is one of the weirdest and most intriguing worlds in our solar system. It is the only place we know of in the universe for sure beyond Earth that has rivers, lakes and larger bodies of liquid, but on Titan these features are filled with flammable hydrocarbons like methane and ethane. Studying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151685","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=151685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}