2/07/2012

A Portrait of Saturn's Hazy Moon Titan

On Jan. 30, the Cassini spacecraft executed a flyby maneuver of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, passing within 19,340 miles (31,130 km) of its surface.

This color composite image of the cloud-covered moon was created by combining raw data acquired with Cassini's Imaging Science System (ISS) in red, green, blue and clear color channels. The result is a color image approximating what the human eye might see, albeit somewhat brighter due to the low levels of light at Saturn's distance from the sun.


Source: Discovery News

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