This image shows Titan in ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. It was
taken by Cassini's imaging science subsystem on Oct. 26, 2004, and is
constructed from four images acquired through different color filters.
Red and green colors represent infrared wavelengths and show areas where
atmospheric methane absorbs light. These colors reveal a brighter (redder)
northern hemisphere. Blue represents ultraviolet wavelengths and shows
the high atmosphere and detached hazes.
Titan has a gigantic atmosphere, extending hundreds of kilometers above
the surface. The sharp variations in brightness on Titan's surface (and
clouds near the south pole) are apparent at infrared wavelengths. The
image scale of this picture is 6.4 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras,
were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based
at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.
