The moon's clouds and a bit of its surface are visible in new views from the space-based observatory.
The telescope’s NIRCam instrument, which images in the near-infrared range, captured the views. They show clouds in Titan’s atmosphere but also a blurry look at Kraken Mare, which is thought to be a methane sea, as well as dark sand dunes.
More data from Titan is expected from Webb’s instruments—including NIRSpec, which can take stock of the planet’s chemical composition, asTitan is about 50% wider than Earth’s Moon. It’s the only moon in the solar system with a substantial atmosphere and theWhile many of these liquid bodies are hydrocarbons—imagine entire methane oceans—scientists believe that water oceans may sit beneath the moon’s icy surface.
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