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Titan's atmosphere

author: Nasa/JPL/SSI/Novapix

reference: a-sat05-20013

Image Size 300 DPI: 12 * 16 cm

Titan's golden, smog-like atmosphere and complex layered hazes appear to Cassini as a luminous ring around the planet-sized moon. Images taken using red, blue and green spectral filters were combined to create this color view. Six images -- two sets of three colors -- were combined to create the mosaic. The images were acquired with the Cassini wide-angle camera on Oct. 12, 2009 at a distance of 145,000 kilometers (90,000 miles) from Titan.

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2009 - ASTRONOMY - ATMOSPHERE - CASSINI - SATELLITE - SATURN'S MOON - TITAN - ULTRAVIOLET - UV -