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Bright Northern Clouds on Titan (natural colors; credits: Lunexit)
Caption NASA:"Bright clouds circumscribe Titan's North Polar Region: a frigid land of Methane Seas. 
The clouds seen in this image and other recent Cassini Spacecraft views are at higher latitudes than similar streak-like clouds observed in the Southern Hemisphere (see PIA08966). Scientists are working to understand why such clouds appear preferentially at certain latitudes on Saturn's largest moon. 
While the streaks that grace Titan's Southern Hemisphere are often seen at 40° South Latitude, similar to Wellington, New Zealand, the streaks in the Northern Hemisphere are farther from the Equator, near 56° North Latitude, which is similar to Glasgow, Scotland. North on Titan is up and rotated 16° to the right. 

The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 938 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 1,2 MKM (such as about (776.000 miles) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-Spacecraft, or Phase, angle of 71°. 
Image scale is 7 Km (about 4,5 miles) per pixel".
Parole chiave: Saturn's Moon - Titan

Bright Northern Clouds on Titan (natural colors; credits: Lunexit)

Caption NASA:"Bright clouds circumscribe Titan's North Polar Region: a frigid land of Methane Seas.
The clouds seen in this image and other recent Cassini Spacecraft views are at higher latitudes than similar streak-like clouds observed in the Southern Hemisphere (see PIA08966). Scientists are working to understand why such clouds appear preferentially at certain latitudes on Saturn's largest moon.
While the streaks that grace Titan's Southern Hemisphere are often seen at 40° South Latitude, similar to Wellington, New Zealand, the streaks in the Northern Hemisphere are farther from the Equator, near 56° North Latitude, which is similar to Glasgow, Scotland. North on Titan is up and rotated 16° to the right.

The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 938 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 1,2 MKM (such as about (776.000 miles) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-Spacecraft, or Phase, angle of 71°.
Image scale is 7 Km (about 4,5 miles) per pixel".

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