Image from 2022 using infrared imaging with the goal of spotting clouds on Titan. The white spot that looks like a bubble reflection on the upper right of the image (1 o’clock?) is a cloud.
This is not true color, but colors assigned to different the wavelengths that we otherwise cannot see. Visible light would not have allowed imaging deep enough into the atmosphere to see clouds.
Image from 2022 using infrared imaging with the goal of spotting clouds on Titan. The white spot that looks like a bubble reflection on the upper right of the image (1 o’clock?) is a cloud.
This is not true color, but colors assigned to different the wavelengths that we otherwise cannot see. Visible light would not have allowed imaging deep enough into the atmosphere to see clouds.
Surely you mean “to see anything but clouds”, right?
Nope! They got to see two cloud actually! A second set of images exists from Keck Observatory with the other cloud.
The thick atmosphere isn’t cloudy, just dense with methane.
I’m not 100%, but the clouds are exciting I think because they demonstrate seasonal changes.