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Titan's Atmospheric Layers
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Caption NASA:"Saturn's moon Titan displays a detached, high-altitude global Haze Layer which is often its most prominent feature in UltraViolet views such as this one.
In this image, Cassini looks down on the North Pole of Titan and, although this view is centered on the Leading Hemisphere of the moon, the Lit Terrain seen here is mostly on the opposite, Trailing Hemisphere of the moon.
The image was taken with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 19, 2009 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of UltraViolet Light centered at 338 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 1,3 MKM (about 808.000 miles) from Titan and at a Phase Angle of 141°.
Image scale is 8 Km (about 5 miles) per pixel".
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