Studying Titan's clouds will help scientists understand why Saturn's largest moon is the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere.
Scientists spotted something exciting on Saturn's moon Titan in images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in early November — clouds. Specifically, clouds in Titan's northern hemisphere.
"At first glance, it is simply extraordinary! I think we're seeing a cloud!" said Sébastien Rodriguez , a planetary scientist at the Universite Paris Cité, in an email to the Titan observation team at NASA's Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The email was included in a NASA statement about the images.
Although the Goddard team was excited about seeing clouds, the JWST images showed only one snapshot in time. To really understand how Titan's atmosphere works, researchers need multiple images to see how the clouds change shape. So the team turned to colleagues at an Earth-based telescope, the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
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