The +Cassini–Huygens spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon and captures the halo-like ring produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of +Titan's atmosphere.
A detached, high-altitude global haze layer encircles Titan. See PIA07774 to learn more. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across). North on Titan is up and rotated 29 degrees to the left.
The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 30, 2012. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 123,000 miles (197,000 kilometers) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 162 degrees. Image scale is 7 miles (12 kilometers) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygensmission is a cooperative project of +NASA , the +European Space Agency, ESA 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 in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygensmission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ or http://www.nasa.gov/cassini . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org/ .
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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