Closer to Titan

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took this image of Saturn’s moon Titan on July 2, 2004, when it was only 347,000 km (216,000 miles) away. This closer image and better resolution is an improvement over Cassini’s previous images of the enshrouded moon by a factor of four. It’s a natural colour image, built by merging photographs taken through the spacecraft’s red, blue and green filters.