Backlit by sunlight, Saturn’s hazy moon Titan appears to be engulfed by a luminous ring in this image from NASA’s Cassini orbiter.

Cassini snapped this view of Titan on Feb. 15, 2005, during its latest flyby past the Saturnian moon.

From this view, a detached haze layer is clearly visibly over the entire Titanian globe, though it appears that the haze layer above the moon’s North Pole (top) has an unusual structure. Cassini imaging researchers have spotted the feature during the spacecraft’s past Titan flybys, but still don’t understand it.

Cassini used its wide-angle camera to catch this view of Titan as it flew past the moon from a distance of about 83,000 miles (134,000 kilometers). The resolution is about five miles (eight kilometers) per pixel.

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