The atmosphere of Titan

This view of Titan reveals structure in the moon's complex atmosphere. The geometry of the Cassini spacecraft's view of Titan during this flyby was similar to that of Voyager 1's pass in 1980.
The image was taken in visible violet light and shows the detached high haze layer that envelops Titan, with additional complexity to its structure in the far North. Some of this atmospheric structure is also visible in a color view (PIA07700) taken at about the same time..

The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Dec. 26, 2005, at a distance of approx. 194.000 Km (such as about 121.000 miles) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 29°. The image scale is 11 Km (about 7 miles) per pixel.