Saturn's moon Titan,Cassini image. Titan's atmosphere (orange) is at left,and a blue-green haze is seen on the moon's limb. Beyond that is the thin crescent-shaped sunlit southern polar region of Saturn (centre right),with the rest of Saturn unlit (upper right). Titan,the largest moon of Saturn,has a diameter of 5150 kilometres. Its thick atmosphere reaches 880 kilometres above its surface,and is mostly nitrogen with traces of methane. This image was obtained by the Cassini spacecraft at a distance of 26,000 kilometres,and was taken on 26 December 2005 | |
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