The complex and dynamic atmosphere of Titan displays multiple haze layers
near the north pole in this view, which also provides an excellent look at
the detached stratospheric haze layer that surrounds the moon at lower
latitudes.
North on Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across) is up and rotated
20 degrees to the left.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
March 16, 2006, using a filter sensitive to wavelengths of ultraviolet
light centered at 338 nanometers. The image was obtained at a distance of
approximately 1.2 million kilometers (800,000 miles) from Titan and at a
Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 68 degrees. Image scale is 7
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.