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Kraken Mare (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"In the top right of this Cassini image, the Southern end of Titan's huge lake of liquid hydrocarbons called Kraken Mare is visible near the moon's North Pole.
See PIA11146 to learn more about Titan's lake districts and to see a map.
Near the moon's Equator are the albedo features Senkyo on the right and Aztlan on the left. This view looks toward the Saturn-Facing Side of Titan. North is up and rotated 31° to the right.
The image was taken with the Cassini Spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 12, 2009 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of Near-InfraRed Light centered at 939 nanometers.
The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 252.000 Km (about 157.000 miles) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 11°.
Image scale is roughly 15 Km (a little more than 9 miles) per pixel".
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(Dettagli)
