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Haze and saturation
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Caption NASA originale:"Sunlight streams through the high-altitude haze layer that extends completely around the giant moon, Titan, in this view of the moon taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Some fine structure can be spotted in the ever-shifting hazes in Titan's Northern Polar reaches to the top.
The distant sky beyond Titan is not empty, but instead is filled in the lower half by the barely visible, immense bulk of Saturn, 1,3 MKM (such as approx. 800.000 miles) beyond. The view is toward the night side of both worlds.
Titan's image is saturated, or over exposed, near the five o'clock position, obscuring the details in the atmosphere.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 2, 2006 at a distance of approx. 2,3 MKM (about 1,4 MMs) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft angle of 163°. Image scale is roughly 14 Km (about 9 miles) per pixel on Titan".
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