Clouds over Titan
Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 14:30 UTC
This image depicts Saturn's moon Titan as seen by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer after closest approach on a July 22, 2006, flyby.
The image was generated using the 5 micron wavelength for red, the 2 micron wavelength for green and the 1.2 micron wavelength for blue. The clouds, circled in the annotated version, are of the type seen previously and reported in the journal Science. The image shows the clouds spreading out along the 40-degree-south latitude line.
This image was taken at 160,000 kilometers (99,000 miles) from Titan.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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