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Titan's golden, smog-like atmosphere and complex layered hazes appear to
Cassini as a luminous ring around the planet-sized moon. The world beneath
that haze has become slightly less mysterious under the gaze of Cassini
and its Huygens probe, but many new discoveries await.
This mosaic view of Titan represents "Target 3" in the fall 2009 edition
of the Cassini Scientist for a Day contest. (See
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/education/scientistforaday8thedition/.)
The contest is designed to give students a taste of life as a scientist by
challenging them to write an essay describing the value of one target
choice among three for Cassini to image.
Images taken using red, blue and green spectral filters were combined to
create this color view. Six images -- two sets of three colors -- were
combined to create the mosaic. The images were acquired with the Cassini
wide-angle camera on Oct. 12, 2009 at a distance of 145,000 kilometers
(90,000 miles) from Titan.
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.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/.
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NASA/JPL
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2009-10-22
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