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Polar Clouds on Titan (IR View - False Colors; credits: Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"Frigid Titan continues to prove itself a remarkably complex and dynamic world. Here, bright clouds are seen encircling the moon's North Polar Region.
The Cassini Spacecraft has revealed the presence of great lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons on this part of Titan's surface (see PIA08365 and PIA08930).
An extended, high-altitude haze hovers above the limb of Titan at top of the image.
The image was taken with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 26, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of Infrared Light centered at 938 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 786.000 Km (such as about 488.000 miles) from Titan.
Image scale is roughly 5 Km (a little more than 3 miles) per pixel".
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(Dettagli)
