Titan’s “Belet” Below the Haze
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The Cassini spacecraft peers down through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan to view the dark region called Belet.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Captured in the near-infrared (938 nanometers) on June 23rd 2011, this image from the Cassini spacecraft highlights a large dark region called Belet. The dark color is due to the Belet region’s low albedo (reflectivity). The view is of Titan’s trailing hemisphere and north is up.
Cassini obtained the image from a distance of approximately 1.6 million kilometers from Titan.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a shared project of NASA, ESA, and the Italian Space Agency. NASA’s JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) manages the mission. Cassini and its two cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. Cassini’s imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
If you’d like to learn more about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov or http://www.nasa.gov/cassini
Source: Cassini Solstice Mission Updates
Ray Sanders is a Sci-Fi geek, astronomer and blogger. Currently researching variable stars at Arizona State University, he writes for Universe Today, The Planetary Society blog, and his own blog, Dear Astronomer
2012-12-04 08:06:37
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