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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-10 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Surface details on Titan are seen faintly through the murky haze of the moon's atmosphere. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on July 30, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light.
PIA10466:
World Beneath the Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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In the distance beyond Saturn's icy rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft glimpses faint details on the surface of Titan. In the foreground, the B ring displays several dark spokes.
PIA10459:
Far from Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-04 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Titan captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows banding in the atmosphere of the moon's northern hemisphere. Like the planet Venus, Titan's atmosphere rotates faster than its surface, a characteristic called 'super rotation.'
PIA10418:
Banded Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-31 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers at the smooth globe of Titan, wrapped in its photochemical haze. The moon's thin, detached, high-altitude haze layer is best viewed at shorter wavelengths of light, as in this violet light image and ultraviolet views.
PIA09869:
Violet Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this color portrait of Saturn and Titan only a few minutes before the haze-enshrouded moon slipped behind the planet's enormous bulk.
PIA09856:
Titan Slips Away
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A bright streak of cloud graces the northern skies of Titan. This is the second time NASA's Cassini spacecraft's imaging cameras have spotted clouds at 60 degrees north latitude on Titan.
PIA09846:
Alien Weather
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's hazy orange globe hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft, partly illuminated -- a world with many mysteries yet to be uncovered.
PIA09833:
A World of Questions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers closely at the layers of organic haze in Titan's upper atmosphere during a recent flyby. Planet-sized Titan is 5,150 kilometers (3,200 miles) across.
PIA09823:
Detached Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-19 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Through the obscuring haze come glimpses of Titan's dune seas. The dark, equatorial region known as Shangri-la is visible here. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Oct. 19, 2007.
PIA09774:
Dark Lowlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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While on final approach for its Sept. 2007 close encounter with Saturn's moon Iapetus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spun around to take in a sweeping view of the Saturn System.
PIA08387:
The View from Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A hazy orb hangs in space, swathed in its dense cocoon of frigid atmosphere. Titan's global, detached, high-altitude haze layer is visible in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09748:
The Smog-bound Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's detached, high-altitude haze layer encircles its smoggy globe in this ultraviolet view, which also features the moon's north polar hood. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 2, 2007.
PIA09739:
Titan's Hazes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This celestial circle of light is produced by the glow of sunlight scattered through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere as the Sun is occulted by Titan. This image was taken in visible blue light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
PIA09007:
Ring of Twilight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Sunlight scatters through Titan's atmosphere, illuminating high hazes and bathing the entire moon in a soft glow in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on May 12, 2007.
PIA08964:
Titan's Cocoon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft view shows the interesting north-south asymmetry in Titan's atmosphere, which is thought to be a seasonal effect.
PIA08958:
Bright to Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft catches a glimpse of features that reveal important clues about processes occurring in Titan's atmosphere. The north polar stratosphere exhibits a banded appearance, as fast-moving clouds whirl around the giant moon.
PIA08953:
High Altitude Hints
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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High northern terrain on Titan is made visible by some image processing sleight of hand as seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on March 29, 2007.
PIA08930:
Seeing Farther North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The rapidly rotating clouds above Titan's northernmost latitudes stretch into streaks that circumscribe the pole. The ultraviolet spectral filter used to take this image allows NASA's Cassini spacecraft to view the moon's stratosphere.
PIA08907:
Circumpolar Bands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-02 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan bears a distinct east-west banded pattern in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft image taken on Dec. 25, 2006. The moon's halo -- its detached, high-altitude global haze layer is visible.
PIA08868:
Bands of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This mosaic provides the best view yet obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, showing terrain on the moon's sub-Saturn hemisphere -- the side of the moon that always faces toward Saturn.
PIA08352:
Improving the View of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Cassini peers around the hazy limb of Titan to spy the sunlit south pole of Saturn in the distance beyond in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 26, 2005.
PIA08351:
Peeking at Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's murky atmosphere shines as a halo of scattered light in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 10, 2006.
PIA08268:
Titan's Halo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-03 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cut across an eerie scene that is ruled by Titan's luminous crescent and globe-encircling haze, broken by the small moon Enceladus, whose icy jets are dimly visible at its south pole this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08235:
Candle in the Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Prominent dark areas found in the Titan's equatorial region appear to contain vast and continuous dune fields, discovered by NASA's Cassini Radar experiment and likely composed of particles that drop from Titan's unique, smoggy atmosphere.
PIA08231:
Saturn's View of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's two largest moons meet in the sky in a rare embrace. Smog-enshrouded Titan glows to the left of airless Rhea. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on June 11, 2006.
PIA08221:
Titan's Kiss
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan shines beyond the rings like a brilliant ring of fire, its light gleaming here and there through the gaps in Saturn's magnificent plane of ice. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA08219:
Rings Occulting Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-07 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The real jewels of Saturn are arguably its stunning collection of icy moons. Seen here with the unlit side of the rings are Titan, Tethys and Enceladus with its fountain-like geysers. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08216:
The Moons are the Stars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Sunlight streams through the high-altitude haze layer that extends completely around the giant moon, Titan, in this view of the moon taken by the NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08214:
Amazing Hazes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Dazzling Titan glows with a 360-degree sunset as light scatters through its very extended atmosphere. The rings show their unlit side to NASA's Cassini, as the spacecraft viewed them from slightly above the ringplane.
PIA08211:
Ring of Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The brightest body in the solar system, Enceladus, is contrasted here against Titan's smoggy, golden murk as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 5, 2006.
PIA07787:
A Tale of Two Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-09 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This view was taken from above the ringplane and looks toward the unlit side of the rings. Here, the probe gazes upon Titan in the distance beyond Saturn and its dark and graceful rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08196:
A Sight to Behold
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The complex and dynamic atmosphere of Titan displays multiple haze layers near the north pole in this view from NASA's Cassini, which also provides an excellent look at the detached stratospheric haze layer that surrounds the moon at lower latitudes.
PIA08167:
Shifting Northern Hazes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This composite of 24 images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows multiple layers in Titan's stratospheric haze. The most prominent layer is located about 500 kilometers (300 miles) above the surface and is seen at all latitudes, encircling the moon.
PIA08137:
Haze Layers on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-06 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This specially processed composite view reveals a tremendous amount of structure in the northern polar atmosphere of Titan. Images were taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 18, 2006.
PIA08127:
The Air Up There
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's smoggy atmosphere glows brilliantly in scattered sunlight, creating a thin, gleaming crescent beyond Saturn's rings. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 18, 2006.
PIA08126:
Titan Shines Through
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This view taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 13, 2006 is centered on the bright region called Xanadu. It includes the bright, crescent-shaped Hotei arcus.
PIA07707:
Titan Smiles Back
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Titan reveals structure in the moon's complex atmosphere. The geometry of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's view of Titan during this flyby was similar to that of Voyager 1's pass in 1980.
PIA07701:
Titanic Complexity
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This view of Titan, captured by NASA's Cassini spacraft on Dec. 26. 2005, reveals structure in the moon's complex atmosphere.
PIA07700:
Titanic Complexity (Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Titan, Saturn's largest moon and Mimas in the foreground are seen together in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan's gravity is weaker than Earth's, so the moon's atmosphere is quite extended -- a quality hinted at in this view.
PIA07666:
Mimas...and Titan Beyond
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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With its thick, distended atmosphere, Titan's orange globe shines softly, encircled by a thin halo of purple light-scattering haze as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07774:
Titan's Halo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The 'H'-shaped region Fensal-Aztlan is faintly visible on Saturn's murky moon Titan in this enhanced clear-filter view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07634:
The Land Beneath the Murk
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Looking back toward the sun brings out the thin haze than hovers 500 kilometers (310 miles) above Saturn's moon Titan. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 24, 2005.
PIA07626:
Titan's Ultraviolet Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This clear-filter view of Saturn's moon Titan reveals a region of cloud activity at high southern latitudes. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 31, 2005.
PIA07597:
Faint Southern Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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As NASA's Cassini spacecraft approached Titan on Aug. 21, 2005, it captured this natural color view of the moon's orange, global smog.
PIA07729:
Looking on the Brightside of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan's equatorial latitudes are distinctly different in character from its south polar region, as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The bright region toward the right side of Titan's disk is Xanadu.
PIA07565:
Dawn at the Huygens Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's hazy moon Titan appears to drift above Saturn's ringplane in this view taken only a tenth of a degree above the rings. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on March 25, 2005.
PIA07519:
Titan Beyond the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-02 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This natural color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Titan's upper atmosphere -- an active place where methane molecules are being broken apart by solar ultraviolet light and the byproducts combine to form compounds like ethane and acetylene.
PIA06236:
Titan: Complex 'Anti-greenhouse'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This natural color composite was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's April 16, 2005, flyby of Titan.
PIA06230:
Cassini's View of Titan: Natural Color Composite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color composite was created with images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's closest flyby of Titan on April 16, 2005.
PIA06229:
Cassini's Views of Titan: False Color Composite
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This image composite was created with images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's closest flyby of Titan on April 16, 2005.
PIA06228:
Cassini's Views of Titan: Monochrome View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These three views of Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft illustrate how different the same place can look in different wavelengths of light.
PIA06227:
Cassini's Three Views of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Although the Huygens probe has now pierced the murky skies of Titan and landed on its surface, much of the moon remains for NASA's Cassini spacecraft to explore.
PIA06220:
New Titan Territory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's biggest and brightest moons are visible in this portrait captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06604:
Fantastic Planet
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows one of the closest views of Xanadu Regio, a large bright region on Titan's surface.
PIA06192:
Zoomed in Xanadu
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This image of Titan's night side was taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft very close flyby of the smoggy moon on Feb. 15, 2005.
PIA06184:
Titan's Night Side
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Saturn's large, smog-enshrouded moon Titan greets NASA's Cassini spacecraft in full color as the spacecraft makes its third close pass on Feb. 15, 2005.
PIA06183:
Hazy Days on Titan
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Multiple upper stratospheric haze layers are evident in this ultraviolet view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looking toward Titan's south pole.
PIA06182:
Titan's Waves?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's planet-sized moon Titan displays a surprisingly flattened-looking north pole in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06549:
Squashed Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-24 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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From its station nearly 1.2 billion kilometers (746 million miles) from Earth, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sends holiday greetings to Earth with this lovely color portrait of Saturn and two of its moons.
PIA06164:
Cassini's Holiday Greetings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found Titan's upper atmosphere to consist of a surprising number of layers of haze, as shown in this ultraviolet image of Titan's night side limb, colorized to look like true color.
PIA06160:
Titan's Many Layers
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken during Cassini's very close approach to Titan on Dec. 13, 2004. The view shows pronounced banding in the Titan atmosphere.
PIA06152:
Second Titan Targeted Flyby #2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken during Cassini's very close approach to Titan on Dec. 13, 2004. Bright streaks of cloud in Titan's southern hemisphere are visible.
PIA06153:
Second Titan Targeted Flyby #3
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-23 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A mosaic of nine processed images recently acquired during NASA's Cassini spacecraft first very close flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on Oct. 26, 2004, constitutes the most detailed full-disc view of the mysterious moon.
PIA06141:
Hovering Over Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Smog-enshrouded Titan shows itself to be a featureless orb, as captured in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06520:
Smog Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Titan, Saturn's largest moon (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles, across), with a streak-like cloud near its south pole.
PIA06510:
Titan's Polar Streak
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These images show two views of Titan's planet-wide stratospheric haze just before (left) and after (right) NASA's Cassini spacecraft's first close encounter with the shrouded moon.
PIA06987:
Two Views of Titan's Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows Titan data from the passive radiometer mode of NASA's Cassini radar instrument overlaid onto a visible-light image mosaic from the spacecraft's imaging science subsystem.
PIA06986:
Titan's Whispers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These images, taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft first close flyby of Titan, show details never before seen on Titan's mysterious surface.
PIA06138:
Titan Close-Ups
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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These three pictures were created from a sequence of images acquired by NASA's Cassini's imaging science subsystem on Oct. 25, 2004, 38 hours before its closest approach to Titan.
PIA06125:
Revealing Titan's Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A global detached haze layer and discrete cloud-like features high above Titan's northern terminator (day-night transition) are visible in this close-up image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06123:
High Haze in Color (Close-up)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A global detached haze layer and discrete cloud-like features high above Titan's northern terminator (day-night transition) are visible in this image acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06122:
High Haze in Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-26 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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High-altitude haze and perhaps cloud layers are visible in this imaging science subsystem image acquired on Oct. 24, 2004, as NASA's Cassini spacecraft neared its first close encounter with Titan.
PIA06120:
High in the Titan Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-26 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals Titan's bright 'continent-sized' terrain known as Xanadu.
PIA06107:
Eyes on Xanadu
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Encircled in purple stratospheric haze, Titan appears as a softly glowing sphere in this colorized image taken one day after NASA's Cassini spacecraft first flyby of the moon on July 2, 2004.
PIA06090:
Purple Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Following its first flyby of Titan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazed back at the smog-enshrouded moon's receding crescent.
PIA06089:
Hazy All Over
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A day after entering orbit around Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sped silently past Titan, imaging the moon's south polar region.
PIA06087:
Receding Titan
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Despite the views of the surface of Saturn's Titan moon provided by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the moon remains inscrutable to the human eye.
PIA06081:
Titan in Natural Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft piercing vision reveals a never-before-seen level of detail on Titan's surface as the moon executes nearly one complete rotation under the spacecraft's watchful gaze.
PIA06080:
As Titan Turns Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has beamed back a new, more detailed image of smog-enshrouded Titan.
PIA06071:
Through the Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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The veils of Saturn's most mysterious moon have begun to lift in NASA's Cassini's eagerly awaited first glimpse of the surface of Titan; scientists believe organic matter rains from hazy skies and seas of liquid hydrocarbons dot a frigid surface.
PIA05390:
The Veils of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-11-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn appears serene and majestic in the first color composite made of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its approach to the ringed planet, with arrival still 20 months away.
PIA02884:
Distant Saturn Sighting
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