Titan Images 2020

The image in the upper part of the table represents a raw view of a portion of Saturn's largest moon Titan obtained during the Cassini-Huygens mission in the Saturn System on July 10, 2017 from the Cassini spacecraft. The image whose file name is N00284419.jpg was acquired on the basis of the CL1 filter and of the CB3 filter. The view had not been validated or calibrated at the time of the observation and a validated or calibrated version was going to be archived with the Planetary Data System proposed by NASA. One can clearly discern the area of Kraken Mare in the high latitudes of the northern hemisphere. The image in the lower part of the table represents a colorized version of the original view. Credit for the original view: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Credit for the colorization process of the original view: Marc Lafferre, 2020.

The image in the upper part of the table corresponds to a raw view of Saturn's largest moon Titan obtained on July 24, 2017 from the eye of the Cassini orbiter. The image whose file name is N00285152.jpg was acquired on the basis of the CL1 filter and of the CB3 filter. The view had not been validated or calibrated at the time of the observation and a validated or calibrated version was going to be archived with the Planetary Data System proposed by NASA. The view in the lower part of the table represents a colorized version of the original image. One can discern, in particular, thin clouds as well as surface features on the giant moon. Credit for the original view: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Credit for the colorization process of the original view: Marc Lafferre, 2020.

The image in the upper part of the table represents a raw view of Saturn's largest moon Titan obtained on October 26, 2004 from the eye of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft. The view of the disk was acquired on the basis of the CB3 filter and of the IRP0 filter. The file name of the image is W00003086.jpg. The image had not been validated or calibrated at the time of the observation and a validated or calibrated image was going to be archived with the Planetary Data System proposed by NASA. Some landscape features can be discerned beneath the opaque atmosphere. The image in the lower part of the table represents a colorized version of the original view. Credit for the original view: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Credit for the colorization process of the original view: Marc Lafferre, 2020.

The image in the upper part of the table reveals a raw view of Saturn's largest moon Titan acquired on the basis of the CL1 filter and of the CB3 filter of the Cassini spacecraft during the Cassini-Huygens mission in the Saturn System on October 19, 2014. The image whose file name is N00230597.jpg clearly shows the sharp contrast between relatively bright areas and relatively dark areas on Titan's surface. The view had not been validated or calibrated at the time of the observation and a validated or calibrated image was going to be archived with the Planetary Data System proposed by NASA. The eye of the Cassini spacecraft can see through Titan's opaque atmosphere in the infrared or near-infrared spectrum. The image in the lower part of the table represents a colorized version of the original view. Credit for the original view: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Credit for the colorization process of the original view: Marc Lafferre, 2020.

The image above which was taken during the Cassini-Huygens mission in the Saturn System unveils the night side as well as the upper atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan. The view was generated on the basis of data acquired on May 29, 2017 with the Narrow-Angle Camera of the Cassini orbiter. Images captured using red, green and blue spectral filters were mobilized to produce the natural-color view. At the time of the observation of the Hazy Moon, the Cassini spacecraft was at a distance of about 1.2 million miles or 2 million kilometers from the giant moon. One can notice in particular the orange haze as well as the blue upper layers of Titan's opaque atmosphere. The blue haze which evolves at a higher altitude than the orange haze may be composed of smaller particles than the orange haze. The viewing angle revealing a large portion of the disk in the night side allows us to more easily discern the upper layers of Titan's atmosphere which look like the layers of Pluto's atmosphere to a certain extent. UV light from the Sun plays a key role in the chemistry of Titan's upper atmosphere. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

The image above clearly shows the north polar region of Saturn's largest moon Titan less than a month after the start of the Summer season in the northern hemisphere of the giant moon. The Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere of the Opaque Moon had occurred on May 24, 2017. The view of Titan's disk was captured on June 9, 2017 from the Narrow-Angle Camera of the Cassini orbiter on the basis of a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared radiation centered at 938 nanometers. The image was acquired at a distance of approximately 315,000 miles or 507,000 kilometers from the Hazy Moon. One can clearly notice, in particular, the famous land of lakes and seas in the high latitudes of the northern hemisphere as well as elongated bright clouds probably dominated by methane at a high latitude in the same hemisphere. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

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