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Saturn's moon Titan as seen by Cassini spacecraft

author: NASA/JPL/SSI/Novapix

reference: a-sat05-20024

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 8 cm

These views were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 21, 2017. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create the natural-color view at left. The false-color view at right was made by substituting an infrared image (centered at 938 nanometers) for the red color channel. A large, bright and feathery band of summer clouds can be seen arcing across high northern latitudes in the view at right. The views were acquired at a distance of approximately 613,000 miles (986,000 kilometers) from Titan. Image scale is about 4 miles (6 kilometers) per pixel.

Keywords for this photo:

2017 - ASTRONOMY - CASSINI - COMPARISON - FALSE COLOR - INFRARED - SATELLITE - SATURN'S MOON - TITAN -