{"id":24817,"date":"2022-03-27T04:56:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T04:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24817"},"modified":"2022-03-27T04:56:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T04:56:44","slug":"titan-seas-reflect-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24817","title":{"rendered":"Titan Seas Reflect Sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2203\/TitanGlint_cassini_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Why would the surface of Titan light up with a blinding flash? The reason: a sunglint from liquid seas. Saturn&#8217;s moon Titan has numerous smooth lakes of methane that, when the angle is right, reflect sunlight as if they were mirrors. Pictured here in false-color, the robotic Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017 imaged the cloud-covered Titan in 2014 in different bands of cloud-piercing infrared light. This specular reflection was so bright it saturated one of Cassini&#8217;s infrared cameras. Although the sunglint was annoying &#8212; it was also useful. The reflecting regions confirm that northern Titan houses a wide and complex array of seas with a geometry that indicates periods of significant evaporation. During its numerous passes of our Solar System&#8217;s most mysterious moon, Cassini has revealed Titan to be a world with active weather &#8212; including times when it rains a liquefied version of natural gas. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220327.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would the surface of Titan light up with a blinding flash? The reason: a sunglint from liquid seas. Saturn&#8217;s moon Titan has numerous smooth lakes of methane that, when <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24817\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24818,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817\/revisions\/24818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}