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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image from the Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the radar-bright region Xanadu and two circular features interpreted to be degraded impact craters.
PIA08429:
Impact Craters on Xanadu
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This map of Saturn's moon Titan shows the location mapped with NASA's Cassini radar mapper using its synthetic aperture radar imaging mode on April 30, 2006.
PIA08430:
Radar Flyby of Titan - April 30, 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's Titan Radar Mapper instrument imaged this area atop Xanadu, the bright area of Titan, on April 30, 2006.
PIA08448:
Titan's Land-o-Lakes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This complex area of hilly terrain and erosional channels is located atop Xanadu, the continent-sized region on Saturn's moon Titan. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini Titan Radar Mapper on April 30, 2006.
PIA08449:
Complex Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image was taken with NASA's Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument on Oct. 28, 2005. This was the fourth flyby of Titan during which radar images were obtained. The most ubiquitous features in this swath are
PIA08454:
Dunes and more Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, peaks out from under the planet's rings of ice in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on April 28, 2006.
PIA08188:
Titan on the Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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During a recent flyby of Titan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looked beyond the utterly overcast moon and spied clear, distant Rhea in the blackness.
PIA08204:
From Cloudy to Clear
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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 2006-07-05 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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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 2006-07-12 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 2006-07-14 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 2006-07-19 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Titan was acquired on April 30, 2006, NASA's Cassini's radar instrument in synthetic-aperture mode over the continent-sized region called Xanadu.
PIA08552:
Titan (T13) Viewed by Cassini's Radar - April 30, 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-19 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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A network of river channels is located atop Xanadu, the continent-sized region on Saturn's moon Titan. This radar image was captured by NASA's Cassini Radar Mapper on April 30, 2006.
PIA08604:
Xanadu's Meandering Rivers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-19 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
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Cassini's powerful radar eyes have uncovered a geologic goldmine in a region called Xanadu on Saturn's moon Titan. Panning west to east, the geologic features include river channels, mountains and hills, a crater and possible lakes.
PIA08605:
Titan's Geological Goldmine - Radar Movie Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft, using its radar system, has discovered very strong evidence for hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Dark patches, which resemble terrestrial lakes, seem to be sprinkled all over the high latitudes surrounding Titan's north pole.
PIA08630:
Lakes on Titan
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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 2006-08-18 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This remarkably clear view from that flyby shows the moon's characteristically dark mid-latitudes, and more southern terrain than NASA's Cassini spacecraft has usually been able to glimpse.
PIA08246:
Outbound View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This synthetic aperture radar image was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its recent pass by Titan's south pole on Dec. 20, 2007.
PIA10218:
Radar Images Titan's South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini radar instrument shows an impact crater with a diameter of 30 kilometers (19 miles) on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA08737:
Crater Studies on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini radar instrument was acquired by the Cassini radar instrument in synthetic aperture mode during a Sept. 7, 2006, flyby of Titan.
PIA08738:
Swimming in Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This composite image, composed of two images taken with NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows a crescent view of Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA08733:
Titan's Crescent View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image depicts Saturn's moon Titan as seen by NASA's Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer after closest approach on a July 22, 2006, flyby.
PIA08736:
Clouds over Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-14 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft recorded these infrared images of Titan's northern hemisphere.
PIA08739:
Ethane Clouds Over Titan
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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 2006-09-26 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini radar image shows two lakes 'kissing' each other on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. The image from a flyby on Sept. 23, 2006, covers an area about 60 kilometers (37 miles) wide by 40 kilometers (25 miles) high.
PIA08740:
Titan's "Kissing Lakes"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-09-26 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Titan shows clear shorelines that are reminiscent of terrestrial lakes. With Titan's colder temperatures and hydrocarbon-rich atmosphere the lakes likely contain a combination of methane and ethane, not water.
PIA08741:
Shorefront Property, Anyone?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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In this image taken by NASA's Cassini radar system, a previously unseen style of lakes is revealed. The lakes here assume complex shapes and are among the darkest seen so far on Titan.
PIA01943:
Lakes and More Lakes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The large dark patch seen on this image at high latitudes surrounding Titan's north pole, is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's radar system, and most likely a hydrocarbon lake.
PIA01942:
Titan's Great Lakes?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This composite image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a massive mountain range running just south of Titan's equator. Near the center of the image, the mountain range runs from southeast to northwest.
PIA09032:
Titan's Sierras
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a composite of several images taken during two separate Titan flybys on Oct. 9 (T19) and Oct. 25 (T20). The large circular feature near the center of Titan's disk may be the remnant of a very old impact basin.
PIA09034:
Exposing Titan's Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This image set from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken at a distance of 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) from Titan and shows two views of an area riddled by mountain ranges that were probably produced by tectonic forces.
PIA09033:
Large Tectonic Complex
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This set of composite images was constructed from the best NASA Cassini radar data and visual and infrared mapping spectrometer data obtained from all the Titan flybys up to the most recent flyby on Oct 25 (T20).
PIA09035:
Infrared and Radar Views of Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-12 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This image composite from NASA's Cassini spacecraft contains a radar image taken during a February 2005 (T3) flyby. A faint fan of material seems to originate at the crater.
PIA09036:
Infrared and Radar Views of Titan #2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Titan was created using data taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS).
PIA08346:
Map of Titan - December 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Narrow Angle
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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 2007-01-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The existence of oceans or lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan was predicted more than 20 years ago. But with a dense haze preventing a closer look it has not been possible to confirm their presence until NASA's Cassini flyby of July 22, 2006.
PIA09102:
Liquid Lakes on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-11 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This pair of images, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft radar mapper on two different Titan passes on Dec. 11, 2006 (T21 left), and Oct. 29, 2005 (T8 right), represent two different views of a field of dunes.
PIA09111:
Two Sides of Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-11 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This radar image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the entire scene in which hydrocarbon lakes were first discovered on Titan, near its north pole.
PIA09112:
Titan (T16) Viewed by Cassini's Radar - July 22, 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-24 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This radar image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Titan's well-known dunes is distinctive because it may show an age relationship between different classes of features on the surface of this frigid world.
PIA09115:
Titan Dunes over Possible Craters (T23)
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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 2007-02-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer has imaged a huge cloud system covering the north pole of Titan.
PIA09171:
Titan's Giant North Pole Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-07 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
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This image of Titan's surface shows the entire scene obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument on Sept. 7, 2006. It includes clear examples of the longitudinal dunes, as well as one of only three positively-identified impact craters (on the far left).
PIA09172:
Titan (T17) Viewed by Cassini's Radar - Sept. 7, 2006
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This radar image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Titan shows a semi-circular feature that may be part of an impact crater. Very few impact craters have been seen on Titan so far, implying that the surface is young.
PIA09175:
A New Crater on Titan?
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This radar image NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Titan shows Ganesa Macula, interpreted as a cryovolcano (ice volcano), and its surroundings. Cryovolcanism is thought to have been an important process on Titan and may still be happening today.
PIA09176:
Ganesa Macula
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-16 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation shows a mosaic of imagery from NASA's Cassini's radar instrument obtained during three flybys of Titan's north pole: T16 (July 22, 2006), T18 (Sept. 23, 2006) and T19 (Oct. 9, 2006)
PIA09177:
Titan Lakes Movie Animation Icon
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 ISS - Wide Angle
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Looking toward high northern latitudes on Titan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies a banded pattern encircling the pole.
PIA08879:
The Banded North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
 Radar Mapper
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This radar image, obtained by NASA's Cassini's radar instrument during a near-polar flyby on Sept. 23, 2006, is the second scene that shows clear shorelines reminiscent of terrestrial lakes.
PIA09179:
Titan (T18) Viewed by Cassini's Radar - Sept. 23, 2006
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Straining to make out the surface of Titan through its murky atmosphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide angle camera manages to exploit one of the infrared spectral windows where the particulate smog is transparent enough for a peek.
PIA08893:
Murky World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This radar image, obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a near-polar flyby on Feb. 22, 2007, shows a big island smack in the middle of one of the larger lakes imaged on Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA09180:
Titan: Larger and Larger Lakes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This radar image, obtained by NASA's Cassini's radar instrument during a near-polar flyby on Feb. 22, 2007, shows dunes surrounding a bright feature on Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA09181:
Titan Features and Interactions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a near-polar flyby on Feb. 22, 2007, features dunes and lakes, one of which is larger than any lake on Earth and could be legitimately called a sea.
PIA09182:
Titan (T25) Viewed by Cassini's Radar - Feb. 22, 2007
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This frame from a movie taken by NASA's Cassini's radar instrument, shows bodies of liquid near Titan's north pole. These images show that many of the features commonly associated with lakes on Earth.
PIA09183:
Radar Shows Evidence of Seas Animation Icon
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This view of Titan taken on Feb. 25, 2007 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals a giant lake-like feature in Titan's North Polar Region.
PIA08363:
Giant Lake on Titan
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This side-by-side image shows NASA's Cassini radar image of what is the largest body of liquid (on the left) ever found on Titan's north pole, compared to Lake Superior (on the right).
PIA09184:
Titan Sea and Lake Superior
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NASA's Cassini peers through the murky orange haze of Titan to spy what are believed to be bodies of liquid hydrocarbons, two of them as large as seas on Earth, near the moon's north pole.
PIA08365:
Exploring the Wetlands of Titan
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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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From high above Titan's northern hemisphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes an oblique view toward the mid-latitude dark regions that gird the giant moon.
PIA08925:
Northern View
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Titan's fast-rotating atmosphere creates circumpolar bands in the north as seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on March 26, 2007.
PIA08928:
Northern Bands
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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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NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired this view of Titan on April 13, 2007, following a flyby of the Mercury-sized moon. Titan's equatorial dark regions are visible, along with faint, dark lineaments in the otherwise bland-looking terrain of the north.
PIA08943:
Titan "T28" View
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Bright and dark terrains on Titan's trailing hemisphere are revealed by NASA's Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem in this mosaic of images taken during the T28 flyby in April 2007.
PIA08945:
Titan "T28" Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-23 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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On May 12, 2007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft completed its 31st flyby of Saturn's moon Titan, which the team calls T30.
PIA09211:
Coasts and Drowned Mountains
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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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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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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 2007-06-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Bright mid-latitude clouds near the bottom of this view hint at the ongoing cycling of methane on Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on May 13, 2007.
PIA08966:
Weather Without Water
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Peering through Titan's thick haze, NASA's Cassini spacecraft glimpses boundaries between bright and dark terrain on the moon's trailing hemisphere. The bright terrain at bottom is in northwestern Adiri.
PIA08968:
Strange New World
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Titan's surface highlights northwestern Shangri-la -- a large, equatorial dark region revealed by radar observations to be covered in longitudinal dune fields.
PIA08971:
In Shangri-la
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-27 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini radar instrument obtained another in its series of north polar swaths of Titan on April 10, 2007. This image exposes more of the transition between the mid-latitudes and the polar area.
PIA09217:
Titan (T28) Viewed by Cassini's Radar-- April 10, 2007
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Within the windswept wastes of Titan's equatorial dune desert lies the 1,700-km (1,050-mi) wide bright region called Adiri, seen here at center. NASA's intrepid Huygens probe landed off the northeastern edge of Adiri in January 2005.
PIA08995:
Above Adiri
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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 2007-08-13 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This north polar image of Titan was acquired NASA's Cassini radar instrument on May 12, 2007.
PIA09218:
Titan (T30) Viewed by Cassini's Radar - May 12, 2007
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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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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 2007-10-11 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows all synthetic-aperture radar images to date of Titan's north polar region. Approximately 60 percent of Titan's north polar region, above 60 degrees north latitude, is now mapped with radar.
PIA10008:
Titan's North Polar Region Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-11 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Cassini's radar instrument finds lakes in the southern hemisphere of Titan during the most recent Titan flyby. NASA's Cassini spacecraft completed its 37th flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on Oct. 2, 2007.
PIA10018:
Radar Sees Lakes in Titan's Southern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft delivers this stunning vista showing small, battered Epimetheus and smog-enshrouded Titan, with Saturn's A and F rings stretching across the scene.
PIA08391:
Titan Beyond the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The murky orange disk of Saturn's moon Titan glides past -- a silent, floating sphere transiting Saturn. Titan is 5,150 kilometers (3200 miles) across. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was acquired from less than a degree above Saturn's ringplane.
PIA08398:
Titan Makes Contact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Titan was created using images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's imaging science subsystem. Images were filter centered at 938 nanometers, allowing researchers to examine albedo variations across the surface of Titan.
PIA08399:
Map of Titan - October 2007
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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 2007-12-31 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and the large, equatorial bright region at center called Adiri. The Huygens probe landing site is in view here, east of Adiri.
PIA09804:
Adiri in View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This synthetic aperture radar image was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its pass by Titan's south pole on Dec. 20, 2007.
PIA10219:
Flowing Liquids on Titan
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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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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 2008-02-27 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 2008-03-12 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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Swathed in its thick blanket of atmosphere, frigid Titan approaches the brilliant limb of Saturn, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09858:
Titan Approaches Saturn
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Shadows cast by Saturn's rings separate the planet's bright equatorial band from the darker northern latitudes. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Feb. 18, 2008.
PIA09859:
High Cloud, Low Cloud
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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 2008-03-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This graphic and animation depicts a cross-section of the Saturnian moon Titan. The assumption that Titan contains an internal ocean was generated from data gleaned NASA's Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar during 19 separate passes over Titan.
PIA10243:
An Ocean Runs Through It Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-31 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This image is the first topographic map of part of Titan's north polar region. The false-color mosaic on the left was produced from overlapping stereo images from NASA's Cassini radar instrument and depicts Titan's north polar region.
PIA10353:
Topographic Map of Titan's North Polar Region
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A set of three parallel ridges was seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's radar instrument during the latest Titan flyby on May 12, 2008.
PIA10654:
Tectonics on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-21 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This side-by-side view shows a newly discovered impact crater compared with a previously discovered crater. The new crater was just discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's radar instrument during its most recent Titan flyby on May 12, 2008.
PIA10655:
Impact Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-25 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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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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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 2008-07-28 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Titan proves itself a complex and dynamic world. Here, bright clouds are seen encircling the moon's north polar region. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed the presence of great lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons on this part of Titan's surface.
PIA10434:
Polar Clouds on Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-30 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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This artist concept shows a mirror-smooth lake on the surface of the smoggy moon Titan. Cassini scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified ethane.
PIA11001:
Titan's Ethane Lake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-08 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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On the final flyby of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's original four-year tour, its radar mapper captured these unusual channels on Titan at the edge of Xanadu, the widest seen in this area.
PIA10956:
Xanadu's Channels
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