Saturn's Moon Titan
Photograph
Saturn's Moon Titan
November 9, 1980
Chromogenic development print
Image: 4 15/16 × 4 15/16 in. (12.6 × 12.6 cm)
Paper: 10 1/4 × 8 in. (26 × 20.3 cm)
Matted: 17 × 14 × 1/8 in. (43.2 × 35.6 × 0.3 cm)
Gift of NASA
Inscriptions verso (applied label, typed): PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE/JET PROPULSION LABORATORY/CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION/PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, 91109. TELEPHONE: (213) 354-5011/PHOTO CAPTION (TOP) P-23076 C/BW/S-1-25/ Nov. 10. 1980/ The clouds covering Saturn's satellite Titan are seen in their/ true colors in this image taken by Voyager 1 on Nov. 9, 1980/ at a distance of 4.5 million kilometers (2.8 million miles)./ Titan's southern hemisphere appears as the lighter region/ with a well-defined boundary between the clouds around the/ satellite's equator. The northern polar region appears/ darker than clouds in the neighboring area. The terminator/ of Titan is at the right; darkening in this area is consistent/ with the extensive cloud layers covering the satellite. Titan's/ surface is believed to be shrouded by aerosols rather than/ the convective louds found in the atmopsheres of Jupiter/ and Saturn. The Voyager Project is managed for NASA by the/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif./###
