The James Webb Space Telescope never ceases to amaze us, since almost every week it takes an image that drives the networks crazy, and this time it was Titan, the sixth and largest satellite of Saturn.

The relevance of this consists in the difficulty that one has when observing Titan, what’s more, Titan has such a dense atmosphere that it is difficult to see it with visible light, however, infrared light changes everything. This light is able to pass through its dense clouds, and can portray its bright and dark areas on its surface, thanks to this we realized that the Earth in the solar system is not the only place where there are rivers, lakes and oceans .

There is only a tiny difference between Titan and Earth, Titan’s rivers, oceans and lakes are made of Hydrocarbons, basically ethane and methane, something rare in our solar system.

Another similarity with Earth is that there are seasons, you know how summer or winter, there are even rains, of course these are methane, and also, well the planet is toxic to humans, so forget about visiting it in the not so near future .

We must be honest, it is not the first time that we have seen Titan in this way, the Keck ground telescope observed it about 30 hours before, in addition the Cassini probe visited Titan in 2017 and gave us extremely important data.

The exploration of our solar system is progressing evenly and for now Titan, along with other moons such as Europa or Enceladus, are the focus of scientists. And it would be less, since the similarities between Titan and Earth are so great and at the same time so different, that questions such as What kind of life is there? Bacterial or more complex like vegetation?

These are some questions that arise quickly, but little by little it will be discovered, it only remains to wait until 2023 for the JWST to take another look at Titan to continue discovering more and hopefully in a mission with the Dragonfly drone, to explore said moon, as the Rover curiosite already did with the Ingenuity drone.

Could it be that Titan hides more things than we can imagine?