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The Great Seas and Lakes of Titan
Caption NASA:"During NASA's Cassini mission's final distant encounter with Saturn's giant moon Titan, the Spacecraft captured this view of the truly enigmatic moon's North Polar landscape of Lakes and Seas, which are filled with liquid Methane and Ethane.

Punga Mare (about 240 miles, or approx. 386,2 Km, across) is seen just above the center of the mosaic, with Ligeia Mare (roughly 300 miles, or about 48,3 Km, wide) below center and vast Kraken Mare stretching off 730 miles (such as approx. 1.174,8 Km) to the left of the mosaic. Titan's numerous smaller and still Unnamed Lakes can be seen around the seas and scattered around the right side of the mosaic. Among the ongoing mysteries about Titan is how these Seas and Lakes are formed.

Another mystery at Titan has been the weather. With its extremely dense Atmosphere, Titan has a Methane Cycle much like Earth's Water Cycle of evaporation, cloud formation, rainfall, surface runoff into Rivers, and collection in Lakes and Seas. 
During Titan's Southern Summer, the Cassini Spacecraft also observed Cloud activity over the South Pole.

However, typical of observations taken during Northern Spring and Summer, the view here reveals only a few small clouds. They appear as bright features just below the center of the mosaic, including a few above Ligeia Mare.

The images in this mosaic were taken with the ISS Narrow-Angle Camera, using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of Near-InfraRed Light centered at 938 nanometers.

They were captured on Sept. 11, 2017, during Cassini's last encounter with Titan. Four days later, Cassini was deliberately plunged into the Atmosphere of Saturn.

The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 87.000 miles (a little less than 140,013 Km) from Titan. Image scale is about 0,5 miles (approx. 800 meters) per pixel. 
The image is an Orthographic Projection centered on 67,19° North Latitude and 212,67° West Longitude. 

Note: an Orthographic View is most like the view seen by a distant observer looking through a telescope".
Parole chiave: Titan

The Great Seas and Lakes of Titan

Caption NASA:"During NASA's Cassini mission's final distant encounter with Saturn's giant moon Titan, the Spacecraft captured this view of the truly enigmatic moon's North Polar landscape of Lakes and Seas, which are filled with liquid Methane and Ethane.

Punga Mare (about 240 miles, or approx. 386,2 Km, across) is seen just above the center of the mosaic, with Ligeia Mare (roughly 300 miles, or about 48,3 Km, wide) below center and vast Kraken Mare stretching off 730 miles (such as approx. 1.174,8 Km) to the left of the mosaic. Titan's numerous smaller and still Unnamed Lakes can be seen around the seas and scattered around the right side of the mosaic. Among the ongoing mysteries about Titan is how these Seas and Lakes are formed.

Another mystery at Titan has been the weather. With its extremely dense Atmosphere, Titan has a Methane Cycle much like Earth's Water Cycle of evaporation, cloud formation, rainfall, surface runoff into Rivers, and collection in Lakes and Seas.
During Titan's Southern Summer, the Cassini Spacecraft also observed Cloud activity over the South Pole.

However, typical of observations taken during Northern Spring and Summer, the view here reveals only a few small clouds. They appear as bright features just below the center of the mosaic, including a few above Ligeia Mare.

The images in this mosaic were taken with the ISS Narrow-Angle Camera, using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of Near-InfraRed Light centered at 938 nanometers.

They were captured on Sept. 11, 2017, during Cassini's last encounter with Titan. Four days later, Cassini was deliberately plunged into the Atmosphere of Saturn.

The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 87.000 miles (a little less than 140,013 Km) from Titan. Image scale is about 0,5 miles (approx. 800 meters) per pixel.
The image is an Orthographic Projection centered on 67,19° North Latitude and 212,67° West Longitude.

Note: an Orthographic View is most like the view seen by a distant observer looking through a telescope".

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