{"id":204708,"date":"2025-01-28T07:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/experiments-corroborate-theory-about-how-titan-maintains-its-atmosphere"},"modified":"2025-01-28T07:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:43:38","slug":"experiments-corroborate-theory-about-how-titan-maintains-its-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/experiments-corroborate-theory-about-how-titan-maintains-its-atmosphere","title":{"rendered":"Experiments corroborate theory about how Titan maintains its atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experiments-corroborate-theory-about-how-titan-maintains-its-atmosphere3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn\u2019s moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system and the only one that has a significant atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile just 40% the diameter of the Earth, Titan has an atmosphere 1.5 times as dense as the Earth\u2019s, even with a lower gravity,\u201d said SwRI\u2019s Dr. Kelly Miller, lead author of a paper about these findings <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S001670372400677X\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta<\/i>. \u201cWalking on the surface of Titan would feel a bit like scuba diving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The origin, age, and evolution of this atmosphere, which is roughly 95% nitrogen and 5% methane, has puzzled scientists since it was discovered in 1944.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn\u2019s moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system and the only one that has a significant atmosphere. \u201cWhile just 40% the diameter of the Earth, Titan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204708","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}