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Titan's surface seen from fly-by on 22 August 2005

31 August 2005

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This NASA/ESA/ASI image of Titan reveals mid-latitudes on the moon's Saturn-facing side. The bright 215-kilometre wide feature provisionally named 'Bazaruto Facula' is clearly visible right of centre, with its dark, unnamed crater (80 kilometres wide) at its centre.

This view was taken with the wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 159 000 kilometres from Titan using a spectral filter centred on infrared wavelengths at 939 nanometres. The image scale is 9 kilometres per pixel. Previous observations indicate that, due to Titan's thick, hazy atmosphere, the sizes of surface features that can be resolved are a few times larger than the actual pixel scale.

Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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As the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft approached Titan on 21 August 2005, it captured this natural colour view of the moon's orange, global smog.

Images taken with the wide-angle camera using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this colour view. The images were acquired at a distance of approximately 213 000 kilometres from Titan. Resolution is about 13 kilometres per pixel.

Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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