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Cassini Discovers Titan’s Glowing Atmosphere

November 5, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter A pair of images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show Titan glowing in the dark. Titan never ceases to amaze. Saturn’s largest moon, it’s wrapped in a complex, multi-layered nitrogen-and-methane atmosphere ten times thicker than Earth’s. It has seasons and weather, as [...]

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Pictures From T-86: Cassini’s Latest Flyby of Titan

September 30, 2012

On September 26-27 Cassini executed its latest flyby of Titan, T-86, coming within 594 miles (956 km) of the cloud-covered moon in order to measure the effects of the Sun’s energy on its dense atmosphere and determine its variations at different altitudes. The image above was captured as Cassini approached Titan from its night side, [...]

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Surprising Swirls Above Titan’s South Pole

July 10, 2012

Thanks to Cassini’s new vantage point granted by its inclined orbit researchers have gotten a new look at the south pole of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. What they’ve recently discovered is a swirling vortex of gas forming over the moon’s pole, likely the result of the approach of winter on Titan’s southern hemisphere. Remove this [...]

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On the Edge of Titan

June 9, 2012

Here’s a quick look at one of my favorite cosmic photo subjects – the varying layers of atmosphere that enshroud Saturn’s enormous moon Titan. The image above is a color-composite made from three raw images acquired by Cassini during its latest flyby. Remove this ad

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A New Angle on Titan

May 11, 2012

Here’s a great shot of Titan and Saturn acquired by Cassini on May 6, 2012 just after a pass by the haze-covered moon. It’s a color-composite made from images taken in Cassini’s red, green and blue color channels, and the resulting image was color adjusted a bit to appear more “Saturny”. UPDATE 7/2/12: The image [...]

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