Image:Titan in natural colour Cassini.jpg
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Summary
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This natural colour composite was taken during the Cassini spacecraft's April 16, 2005, flyby of Titan. It is a combination of images taken through three filters that are sensitive to red, green and violet light.
It shows approximately what Titan would look like to the human eye: a hazy orange globe surrounded by a tenuous, bluish haze. The orange colour is due to the hydrocarbon particles which make up Titan's atmospheric haze. This obscuring haze was particularly frustrating for planetary scientists following the NASA Voyager mission encounters in 1980-81. Fortunately, Cassini is able to pierce Titan's veil at infrared wavelengths (see PIA06228).
North on Titan is up and tilted 30 degrees to the right.
The images to create this composite were taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide angle camera on April 16, 2005, at distances ranging from approximately 173,000 to 168,200 kilometers (107,500 to 104,500 miles) from Titan and from a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 56 degrees. Resolution in the images is approximately 10 kilometers per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page, http://ciclops.org.
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- http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06230 (cropped and rotated from the original)
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- Titan (moon)
- List of solar system objects by mass
- Timeline of discovery of solar system planets and their natural satellites
- Saturn's natural satellites
- List of solar system objects by radius
- List of natural satellites
- Colonization of Titan
- Flight on Titan
- Saturn's moons in fiction
- List of planetary bodies
- List of natural satellites by diameter
- User:Ignitus/Sandbox
- User:Marianika/Science timelines
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| Image title | converted PNM file |
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| Orientation | Normal |
| Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
| Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
| Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS Windows |
| File change date and time | 23:48, 19 January 2006 |
| Colour space | 65535 |
Category: NASA images