On the upper left is a true color view of Titan. It shows what Titan looks like to the human eye. It is a composite of images taken through three filters that are sensitive to red, green and blue light. The moon's
north polar hood is visible in this view.
The image on the upper right is a representation of what it would look like if you could see past Titan's atmosphere and down to its surface. The darker areas are vast hydrocarbon sand dunes and seas. Cassini uses its infrared filter to see to Titan's surface.
On the bottom is a false color view of Titan. It is a composite of images taken through three filters that are sensitive to infrared, methane band, and ultraviolet light. Darker areas here are also vast hydrocarbon sand dunes and seas.
In the infrared and false color views, Titan's largest sea,
Kraken Mare, is visible in the north polar region.
See a video rotating between views
here.
All images shown here were taken by Cassini's camera system, the
Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on April 18, 2017 and received on Earth April 19, 2017. The camera was pointing toward TITAN at approximately 1.51 million kilometers (0.94 million miles) away.
Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans
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