by bystander » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:09 pm
NASA |
JPL-Caltech |
Cassini Solstice Mission |
CICLOPS | 2012 Apr 02
Hazy Orange Orb
Titan's atmosphere makes Saturn's largest moon look like a fuzzy orange ball in this natural color view from the Cassini spacecraft.
Titan's north polar hood is visible at the top of the image, and a faint blue haze also can be detected above the south pole at the bottom of this view. Recent Cassini images suggest Titan's north polar vortex, or hood, is beginning to flip from north to south (see
Orange and Blue Hazes). See
Haze Layers on Titan and
Above Titan's North to learn more about the moon's atmosphere.
This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across). North is up.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 30, 2012 at a distance of approximately 119,000 miles (191,000 kilometers) from Titan. Image scale is 7 miles (11 kilometers) per pixel.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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Titan's atmosphere makes Saturn's largest moon look like a fuzzy orange ball in this natural color view from the Cassini spacecraft.
Titan's north polar hood is visible at the top of the image, and a faint blue haze also can be detected above the south pole at the bottom of this view. Recent Cassini images suggest Titan's north polar vortex, or hood, is beginning to flip from north to south (see [url=http://www.ciclops.org/view.php?id=6888][b]Orange and Blue Hazes[/b][/url]). See [url=http://www.ciclops.org/view.php?id=1839][b]Haze Layers on Titan[/b][/url] and [url=http://www.ciclops.org/view.php?id=6771][b]Above Titan's North[/b][/url] to learn more about the moon's atmosphere.
This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across). North is up.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 30, 2012 at a distance of approximately 119,000 miles (191,000 kilometers) from Titan. Image scale is 7 miles (11 kilometers) per pixel.
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