Titan's detached, high-altitude haze layer encircles its smoggy globe in
this ultraviolet view, which also features the moon's north polar hood.
The northern hemisphere is currently in its Winter season.
Titan is 5,150 kilometers (3,200 miles) across.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
Sept. 2, 2007 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of
ultraviolet light centered at 338 nanometers. The view was obtained at a
distance of approximately 1.3 million kilometers (816,000 miles) from
Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 20 degrees. Image
scale is 8 kilometers (5 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 mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm.
The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.