25 June 2007
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is enshrouded in a thick veil of hazes that almost totally obscures the moon's surface. NASA's Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft has peered through Titan's hazes, providing glimpses of the boundaries between bright and dark terrain on the moon's trailing hemisphere.
This view is a composite of infrared images. The image has some processing artifacts, such as the two small, dark circles below and right of center.
The images were taken with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on 13 May 2007, at a distance of approximately 237,000 km from Titan. Image scale is 3 km per pixel. Due to scattering of light by Titan's smoggy atmosphere, the sizes of surface features that can be resolved are a few times larger than the actual pixel scale.
Further Reading
Cassini-Huygens Mission
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov
The Cassini imaging team homepage
http://ciclops.org
Aymen Mohamed Ibrahem