A dome of hazy atmosphere
arcs high above the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan.
Titan’s northern polar
region dominates this view caught by the Cassini
spacecraft. The image has been processed specifically to reveal information on
the atmosphere’s structure.
The hazes of Titan’s
atmosphere, known to extend hundreds of kilometers above the surface, appear in
several detached structures that propagate through stably stratified layers.
Cassini used its
narrow-angle camera to take the 10 images in the visible range of the light
spectrum used to build this image.
-- SPACE.com Staff
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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