This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
| This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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A Trip Into Space  Saturn Satellites And Rings Saturn's Satellite Titan |
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| See also: Saturnian Satellite Fact Sheet, Saturn's Satellite Titan - Surface View |   |
Voyager 2 obtained this view of Titan, Saturn's largest satellite, Aug. 22 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. The Voyager Project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Last Update: 2004-Nov-27