{"id":2101,"date":"2014-06-22T13:07:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T18:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2014-06-23T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T16:11:08","slug":"waves-or-bubbles-spotted-on-titans-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/waves-or-bubbles-spotted-on-titans-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Waves or bubbles spotted on Titan\u2019s sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2075\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase641fbd770212f5d0c3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2075\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase641fbd770212f5d0c3.png\" alt=\"Transient features in Ligeia Mare on Titan, Saturn\u2019s largest moon, circled in red. This image was acquired by the Cassini RADAR system on July 10th, 2013. It has been modified for aesthetic appeal and is shown in false colour. (Photo Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASI\/Cornell)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase641fbd770212f5d0c3.png 600w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase641fbd770212f5d0c3-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transient features in Ligeia Mare on Titan, Saturn\u2019s largest moon, circled in red. This image was acquired by the Cassini RADAR system on July 10th, 2013. It has been modified for aesthetic appeal and is shown in false colour. (Photo Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASI\/Cornell)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For the first time, astronomers have observed waves or surface bubbles in a methane sea on the surface of Titan, Saturn\u2019s largest moon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While surface temperature averages around \u2212179.5 \u00b0C, Titan is the only other planetary body in the Solar System with seas of stable liquid on its surface. The authors analyzed radar data from NASA\u2019s Cassini spacecraft &#8211; which has monitored Titan since 2004 &#8211; and detected bright spots that were not seen in earlier or later radar images. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This suggests that Titan\u2019s seas could react differently to the changing seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/ngeo2190.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Nature Geoscience<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 22, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.cornell.edu\/jason-hofgartner.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Hofgartner<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Cornell University, USA<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, astronomers have observed waves or surface bubbles in a methane sea on the surface of Titan, Saturn\u2019s largest moon. While surface temperature averages around \u2212179.5 \u00b0C, Titan is the only other planetary body in the Solar System with seas of stable liquid on its surface. The authors analyzed radar data from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1349,1822,533],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-nasa","tag-saturn","tag-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase641fbd770212f5d0c3.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-xT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}