The images of Titan were taken on November 4, 2022, by the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam instrument.
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, the second largest planet in the Solar System. It is the second largest moon of the solar system. The largest satellite of the Solar System is Ganymede.
The size of Titan is bigger than the Earth's Moon and Mercury (planet). Titan's Mean Radius is approximately 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers).
It takes about 16 days for Titan to orbit Saturn and make one rotation on its axis, because only one side of Titan always faces Saturn.
The distance of Titan from Saturn is about 7,59,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers). Light from the Sun takes about 80 minutes to reach Titan.
Due to the distance, sunlight is about 100 times fainter at Titan and Saturn than at Earth. Titan does not have any rings like Saturn.
Titan is an icy moon whose surface is made of rock-hard water ice. There is also a possibility of having a liquid water ocean under its surface.
Of the more than 150 known moons in our solar system, Titan is the only moon known to have a substantial atmosphere.
Like Earth's, Titan's atmosphere is composed mostly of nitrogen (and also about 5 percent methane). Titan's surface temperature is around -290 degrees Fahrenheit (-179 Celsius).
Methane in Titan's atmosphere makes its complex atmospheric chemistry possible, but where the methane comes from on Titan is a mystery.
Of all the places in the Solar System known so far, Titan is the only place other than Earth that is likely to have liquid on its surface in the form of rivers, lakes and seas.
According to astronomers, Titan is the only other place in the solar system that has a cycle of liquid raining clouds like Earth.
Due to Titan's dense atmosphere and gravity equal to that of Earth's Moon, raindrops falling from the sky on Titan fall more slowly than on Earth.
A comparison of different photographs taken by James Webb confirms that a bright spot seen in Titan's northern hemisphere is indeed a large cloud.