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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-08 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views the cratered surface of Saturn's moon Tethys in front of the hazy orb of the planet's largest moon, Titan. Tethys is much closer than Titan to Cassini.
PIA12778:
Craters Before Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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Three of Titan's major surface features-dunes, craters and the enigmatic Xanadu-appear in this radar image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The hazy bright area at the left that extends to the lower center of the image marks the northwest edge of Xanadu.
PIA14500:
Titan: Putting it all Together
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-07-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines Titan's north polar hood, the part of the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon appearing dark at the top of this image.
PIA12775:
Above Titan's North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-07-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained these false-color images of a circular feature in a region known as Xanadu on Saturn's moon Titan. The images show Titan in infrared wavelengths of radiation.
PIA14311:
Circular Feature at Xanadu, Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-06-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's rings cut across this view of the planet's largest moon, Titan. Dark albedo features on Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across) and the moon's north polar hood are visible in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12772:
Slicing Before Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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The change in Titan's haze layer is illustrated in this figure, derived from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The picture of Titan in panel a was taken on May 3, 2006, panel b was taken on April 2, 2010.
PIA14115:
Titan's Haze is Falling
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-02 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon and captures the halo-like ring produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere.
PIA12764:
Ethereal Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-08 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Galileo
Radar Mapper
Solid-State Imaging
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These images compare surface features observed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft at the Xanadu region on Saturn's moon Titan (left), and features observed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on Jupiter's cratered moon Callisto (right).
PIA13896:
Titan and Callisto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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These side-by-side images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the feature named Tortola Facula on Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA13895:
Tortula Facula
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show changes caused by methane rain in the bright Adiri region near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
PIA12819:
Brightening Adiri
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This series of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows changes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, as the transition to northern spring brings methane rains to the moon's equatorial latitudes.
PIA12818:
Titanic Deluge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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A huge arrow-shaped storm blows across the equatorial region of Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, chronicling the seasonal weather changes on Saturn's largest moon.
PIA12817:
Titan's Arrow-Shaped Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image shows clouds in the mid-southern latitudes of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, one of a series of images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft a few months after fall began in the southern hemisphere.
PIA12813:
Titan's Moving Mid-Latitude Clouds Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Clouds move above Titan's large methane lakes and seas near the moon's north pole in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Methane clouds in the troposphere, the lowest part of the atmosphere, appear white here.
PIA12812:
Northern Clouds in Motion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Clouds move above the large methane lakes and seas near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12811:
Titan's Northern Polar Clouds Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicles the change of seasons as it captures clouds concentrated near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Methane clouds in the troposphere, the lowest part of the atmosphere, appear white here.
PIA12810:
Equatorial Titan Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-03-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views Saturn with a selection of its moons in varying sizes. Also seen here are Titan (center), Enceladus (far right), Pandora, barely detectable as a speck on the far left, has been brightened by a factor of two.
PIA12756:
Moons Small to Large
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft watches a pair of Saturn's moons, showing the hazy orb of giant Titan beyond smaller Tethys. In the foreground of the image, Ithaca Chasma can be seen running roughly north-south on Tethys.
PIA12745:
Titan and Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-16 Juno
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Technicians install components that will aid with guidance, navigation and control of NASA's Juno spacecraft. Like most of Juno's sensitive electronics, these components are situated within the spacecraft's titanium radiation vault.
PIA13714:
Installing Electronics in Juno's Vault
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the location of an area known as Sotra Facula on Saturn's moon Titan. Scientists believe the Sotra Facula region makes the best case for a cryovolcanic, or ice volcano, region on Titan.
PIA13696:
Global View of Sotra Facula, Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This frame from a movie is based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and shows a flyover of an area of Saturn's moon Titan known as Sotra Facula. Scientists believe Sotra is the best case for an ice volcano, or cryovolcano, region on Titan.
PIA13695:
Flyover of Sotra Facula, Titan Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This graphic, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the percentage of cloud coverage across the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. The color scale from black to yellow signifies no cloud coverage to complete cloud coverage.
PIA13401:
Mapping Titan's Cloud Coverage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This pair of false-color images, made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows clouds covering parts of Saturn's moon Titan in yellow, while Titan's hazy atmosphere appears magenta.
PIA13400:
Clouds Clearing around Titan's North Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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A darkly defined Rhea passes before the fuzzy orb of Titan in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's two largest moons. Rhea is closer to the spacecraft in this view.
PIA12724:
Biggest Saturnian Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-16 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Robotic Arm (MSL)
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Testing of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sept. 3, 2010, included movements of the arm while the rover was on a table tilted to 20 degrees to simulate a sloped surface on Mars.
PIA13390:
Tilt-Table Testing for Curiosity's Robotic Arm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-16 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Robotic Arm (MSL)
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NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, stretches its robotic arm upward during tests on a tilt table in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labotatory.
PIA13389:
Arm Stretch by Curiosity Mars Rover
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Robotic Arm (MSL)
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Test operators in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitor some of the first motions by the robotic arm on the Mars rover Curiosity after installation in August 2010. The arm is shown in a partially extended position.
PIA13388:
Curiosity Mars Rover Flexes its Robotic Arm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-10 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (WAC)
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Color of the Moon
PIA13517:
Color of the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Four of Saturn's moons join the planet for a well balanced portrait. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is in the lower left. Tethys appears in upper right. The smaller moons Pandora and Epimetheus are barely visible here.
PIA12718:
Quartet and Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines Titan's dark and light seasonal hemispheric dichotomy as it images the moon with a filter sensitive to near-infrared light. This image also shows Titan's north polar hood.
PIA12716:
Dark and Light Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Terrain on Saturn's moon Tethys, defined with craters, is shown in front of the hazy atmosphere of the larger moon Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing sides of Titan and Tethys.
PIA12709:
Tethys Before Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This mosaic, made from radar images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows parallel mountain chains on Saturn's moon Titan, near an equatorial region known as Adiri.
PIA13332:
Mountains near Adiri on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This mosaic, made from radar images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows parallel mountain chains on Saturn's moon Titan. The mountains appear along the northwest border of a region known as Xanadu.
PIA13331:
Mountains on the Northwest Border of Xanadu, Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This mosaic, made from radar images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows mountainous terrain on Saturn's moon Titan in the moon's northern hemisphere, north of the Aaru region.
PIA13330:
Mountains North of Aaru on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-10 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines the characteristics of Titan's atmosphere as it peers at Saturn's largest moon using a filter sensitive to visible violet light.
PIA12695:
Atmospheric Aspects
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Crisp details on Dione contrast with the haziness of Titan in image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of a pair of Saturn's moons. Smaller Dione is at the bottom of the image, and that moon's wispy terrain is visible.
PIA12678:
Study in Contrasts
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This image is from an animation that glides along the shoreline of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake on the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan. The animation is based on overlapping radar images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA13173:
Flying Over Ontario Lacus Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This image of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake on the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan, was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The lake surface appears dark because it is smooth.
PIA13172:
Footprint of Ontario Lacus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Juno
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Workers place the special radiation vault for NASA's Juno spacecraft onto the propulsion module. The whole vault, with more than 20 electronic assemblies inside, weighs about 200 kilograms (500 pounds).
PIA13260:
Setting up Juno's Radiation Vault
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Juno
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Technicians installed the special radiation vault for NASA's Juno spacecraft on the propulsion module. The radiation vault has titanium walls to protect the spacecraft's electronic brain and heart from Jupiter's harsh radiation environment.
PIA13259:
Protecting Juno's Electronics from Radiation
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Technicians installed a special radiation vault onto the propulsion module of NASA's Juno spacecraft. Each titanium wall measures nearly a square meter (nearly 10 square feet) in area and about 1 centimeter (a third of an inch) in thickness.
PIA13258:
Installing Juno's Radiation Vault
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Technicians lowered a special radiation vault onto the propulsion module of NASA's Juno spacecraft. The vault will dramatically slow the aging effect radiation has on the electronics for the duration of the mission.
PIA13257:
Lowering Juno's Radiation Vault
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-12 Juno
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A technician inspects the special radiation vault being installed atop the propulsion module of NASA's Juno spacecraft; the vault has titanium walls to protect the spacecraft's electronic brain and heart from Jupiter's harsh radiation environment.
PIA13256:
Inspecting Juno's Radiation Vault
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on July 7, 2010. Southern mid-latitudes (trailing hemisphere, Northern Mezzoramia.
PIA06679:
Titan Radar Swath (T-71 Flyby - July 7, 2010)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's largest moon and maps the dark Belet region on Titan.
PIA12671:
A Look at Belet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere reaches NASA's Cassini as the spacecraft's camera is pointed at the dark side of the moon.
PIA12664:
Light on the Dark Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-21 Dione Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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The surface of Saturn's moon Dione is rendered in crisp detail against a hazy, ghostly Titan. A portion of the 'wispy' terrain of Dione's trailing hemisphere can be seen on the right in this captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12659:
Dione and Ghostly Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark Senkyo region on Saturn's moon Titan. Senkyo is the dark region towards the right. Two other dark regions, Aztlan and Fensal are also shown here. The bright area below Aztlan is called Tsegihi.
PIA12655:
Titan's Dark Senkyo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, to examine the dark region Belet. This large region on the moon's surface has a low albedo, meaning it reflects little light.
PIA12647:
Belet Close-Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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In this stunning image, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks at the dark side of Saturn's largest moon. The narrowing circle of light surrounding Titan is produced by sunlight scattering through Titan's atmosphere.
PIA12642:
Incomplete Halo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Two different seasons on Titan in different hemispheres can be seen in this image. The moon's northern half appears slightly darker than the southern half in this view taken in visible blue light by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12632:
Titan's Two Halves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-11 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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In a sweeping mosaic of the low latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan, the bright landmass of the enigmatic region known as Xanadu stands out on the right-hand side of this radar image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12989:
Xanadu's Channels and Dunes
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Radar Mapper
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The bright landmass of an enigmatic area known as Xanadu and the intriguing lobed shapes of the Hotei Regio area are visible at the right and far right, respectively, in this radar image of Saturn's moon Titan obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12988:
Dunes, Tectonics and Possible Ice Volcanoes on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's rings, partially darkened by the planet's shadow, cut a striking figure before Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The moon Mimas is near the bottom of this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12629:
Cut by Saturn's Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-07 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (NAC)
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the floor of a l.2-km diameter crater in the Mare Frigoris.
PIA13106:
Mare Frigoris Constellation Region of Interest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers through Titan's atmosphere at the region called Adiri, west of the landing site of the Huygens probe on the anti-Saturn side of the moon.
PIA12621:
West of the Probe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks at Belet, a dark region on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The Cassini spacecraft looks at Belet, a dark region on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
PIA12615:
Behold Belet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's moon Dione passes in front of the larger moon Titan, as seen from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This image is part of a mutual event sequence in which one moon passes close to or in front of another.
PIA12609:
Before Hazy Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-07 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Titan as a circle of light is produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon. A detached, high-altitude global haze layer encircles the moon.
PIA12606:
Lit Through the Haze
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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The moon Rhea moves behind Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in this 'mutual event' imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Part of Rhea's southern hemisphere is also visible here through the haze of Titan's atmosphere.
PIA12599:
Hiding Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-17 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes a look through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon to spy light and dark in the area called Adiri on Titan.
PIA12591:
Zooming in on Adiri
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This artist's illustration shows the likely interior structure of Saturn's moon Titan deduced from gravity field data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12843:
Titan's Cool and Sluggish Interior (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-10 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft records Titan's seasonal hemispheric dichotomy, with the moon's northern half appearing slightly lighter than the southern half in this image.
PIA12586:
Titan's Changing Seasons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark region of Belet on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. This large region on the moon has a low albedo, meaning it diffusely reflects little light.
PIA12559:
Dark Belet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Two different instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft combined their observations to create a more detailed portrait of the Hotei Regio area on Saturn's moon Titan. Blue lines on top show the location of channels that stand out in the bottom of image.
PIA12849:
Channels and Minerals at Hotei Regio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Two different instruments aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft combined their observations to create a more detailed portrait of the Hotei Regio area on Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA12848:
Looking for Ice Volcano Flows at Hotei Regio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-17 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a 'mutual event' between Titan and Mimas in front of a backdrop of the planet's rings. This image was snapped shortly before Saturn's largest moon passed in front of and occulted the small moon Mimas.
PIA12551:
Big Obscures Small
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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In this synthetic aperture radar image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, two generally similar features, upper center and lower right, appear to be low mountains with grooves running roughly in the up-down direction.
PIA12496:
New Wrinkles on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes at several albedo features on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Left to right are four dark regions: Fensal, Aztlan, Aaru and a part of Senkyo.
PIA12531:
Dark Quartet
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Saturn's moon Tethys with its prominent Odysseus Crater silently slips behind Saturn's largest moon Titan and then emerges on the other side in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12528:
Tethys Slips Behind Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters, as seen in this view captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This is one example, from a crater in Noachis Terra, west of the giant Hellas impact basin.
PIA12491:
Dune Symmetry Inside Martian Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Jan. 12, 2010. High southern latitudes (Ontario Lacus, Mezzoramia).
PIA00927:
Titan Radar Swath (T-65 Flyby - Jan. 12, 2010)
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Titan's seasonal hemispheric dichotomy is chronicled in black and white, with the moon's northern half appearing slightly lighter than the dark southern half in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12524:
Halving Titan
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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Rhea emerges after being occulted by the larger moon Titan in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12515:
Reappearing Rhea
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Radar Mapper
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This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Dec. 28, 2009. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 955 kilometers (593 miles) during the closest approach.
PIA06678:
Titan Radar Swath (T-64 Flyby - Dec. 28, 2009)
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon as a circle of light is produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere. A detached, high-altitude global haze layer encircles the moon.
PIA12511:
Dark Side Ring of Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-18 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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The shadow of Saturn's largest moon darkens a huge portion of the gas giant planet. Titan is not pictured here, but its shadow is elongated in the bottom right of the image.
PIA11648:
Enormous Elongated Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-17 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2009, shows the first flash of sunlight reflected off a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn's moon Titan. The glint off a mirror-like surface is known as a specular reflection.
PIA12481:
Reflection of Sunlight off Titan Lake
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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The low albedo feature known as Senkyo is visible through the haze of Titan's atmosphere in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11636:
Details of Dark Senkyo
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ISS - Wide Angle
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In the top right of NASA's Cassini image, the southern end of Titan's huge lake of liquid hydrocarbons called Kraken Mare is visible near the moon's north pole.
PIA11626:
Titan's Northern Lake
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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In this image, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down on the north pole of Titan, and, although this view is centered on the leading hemisphere of the moon, the lit terrain seen here is mostly on the opposite, trailing hemisphere of the moon.
PIA11622:
Titan's Halo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-03 Mercury MESSENGER
Gamma Ray Spectrometer Suite
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Mercury's Surface Has More Iron + Titanium Than Previously Thought
PIA12362:
Mercury's Surface Has More Iron + Titanium Than Previously Thought
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini Orbiter sees Titan become obscured as it moves into eclipse by Saturn. Most of the light comes from refracted sunlight passing through the edge of Saturn's atmosphere.
PIA11610:
Eclipsing Titan
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Titan's golden, smog-like atmosphere and complex layered hazes appear to NASA's Cassini Oribter as a luminous ring around the planet-sized moon.
PIA12320:
Enigmatic Titan
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ISS - Wide Angle
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Seasonal changes in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon are captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which shows Titan with a slightly darker top half and a slightly lighter bottom half.
PIA11603:
Two Halves of Titan
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Technicians install components that will aid with guidance, navigation and control of NASA's Juno spacecraft.
PIA13922:
Building Juno's Electronic Brain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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These images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show disappearing lakes in before-and-after comparisons of two areas in the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA12281:
Disappearing Lakes
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Radar Mapper
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This first glimpse of seasonal change shows the southern polar area of Saturn's moon Titan, using data from the Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12280:
Changing Seasons on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-07 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's conception shows a nearly invisible ring around Saturn -- the largest of the giant planet's many rings. It was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA12256:
The King of Rings (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This ultraviolet view of Titan shows the moon's north polar hood and its detached, high-altitude haze layer. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 13, 2009.
PIA11594:
Titan's North Polar Hood
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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A big shadow from Saturn's largest moon darkens the planet in the lower right of this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shortly after Saturn's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11585:
The Black Spot
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers through the hazy atmosphere of Titan for a close view of light and dark terrain on Saturn's largest moon.
PIA11577:
Titan Through the Haze
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks at Saturn's largest moon, Titan, revealing its halo-like ring formed in the upper hazes of the moon's extensive atmosphere.
PIA11567:
Ring Around Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Aug. 25, 2009. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 970 kilometers (603 miles) during the closest approach.
PIA06677:
Titan Radar Swath (T-61 Flyby - Aug. 25, 2009)
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft charts a quartet of dark albedo features on the moon Titan. From upper left to lower right of the image are Fenzal, Aztlan, Aaru and Senkyo.
PIA11560:
Low Albedo Foursome
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-06 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This mosaic of image swaths from NASA's Cassini's Titan Radar Mapper, taken with the synthetic-aperture radar, features a large dark region several hundred kilometers across that differs in several significant ways from potential lakes observed on Titan.
PIA12162:
Lake-like but Different
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ISS - Wide Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down on the north pole of Titan, showing night and day in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's largest moon.
PIA11548:
Colorful Northern Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on July 24, 2009. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 955 kilometers (593 miles) during the closest approach.
PIA04399:
Titan Radar Swath (T-59 Flyby - July. 24, 2009)
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ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Fensal and Aztlan, two dark areas near the equator of Titan.
PIA11542:
Enchanted Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
Radar Mapper
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An enigmatic large basin appears in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Titan at the center of this Titan Radar Mapper image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired on June 22, 2009.
PIA12111:
South Polar Basin on Titan
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