COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Record
Title:
The Surface of Titan
Explanation:
If sailing the hydrocarbon [ http://chemscape.sa… ] seas of Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.… ], beware of gasoline rain. Such might be a travel advisory [ http://travel.state… ] issued next millennium [ http://www.usno.nav… ] for adventurers visiting Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.… http://www.seds.org… ], the largest moon of Saturn [ http://www.seds.org… ]. Images of Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.… ]'s surface were released [ http://www.llnl.gov… ] last week from the Keck 10-meter telescope [ http://antwrp.gsfc.… ] featuring the finest details yet resolved. Peering into Titan [ http://ispec.sciber… ]'s thick smog atmosphere with infrared [ http://www.us-gemin… ] light, complex features interpreted as oceans, glaciers, and rock became visible. The high-resolution infrared image pictured above [ http://www-igpp.lln… ] was made possible using an unblurring technique called speckle interferometry [ http://op.ph.ic.ac.… ]. The interplanetary probe Cassini [ http://www.jpl.nasa… ] will reach Saturn and Titan in 2004 to better explore [ http://antwrp.gsfc.… ] this unusual world.
Credit and Copyright:
S. G. Gibbard [ http://mailto:sgibbard@igpp.llnl.gov ] et al. (IGPP, LLNL [ http://www.llnl.gov/ ])
keyword:
Saturn
facet_when:
2004
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Cassini
facet_when_year:
2004
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap990804
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