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The Saturn Gallery

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All images & text coutesy NSSDC

<< 6/12 < > Voyager 2 obtained this view of Titan, Saturn's largest satellite from a range of 4.5 million kilometers (2.7 million miles). Separate violet, blue and green frames where combined to make this photograph, in which cloud features of diameter greater than 85 km. (50 mi.) are visible. Seen here are the bright southern hemisphere and the dark north polar region. At this resolution, Titan appears to be completely shrouded by a thick atmosphere; visible features consist of cloud bands parallel to the equator. There is the suggestion of a northern hemisphere feature diagonal to the equator, but this is the result of a loss of data in one of the images used to compose this photograph.

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