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.

• Cassini Scans Titan for Subsurface Ocean, Methane Ice
• Special Report: Cassini’s Ongoing Mission to Saturn

-- SPACE.com Staff

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute