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Saturn from Titan orbit

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: a-sat99-00319

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 25 cm

This is how Saturn and Titan might look from a position in orbit around Titan. While in reality Saturn is vastly larger than Titan, it appears smaller here because Titan's orbit puts Saturn at a distance of about 700 thousand miles. Sunlight filtering through Titan's upper atmospheric haze--extending over 300 miles above the surface--gives a bluish cast to its limb.

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ASTRONOMY - ATMOSPHERE - ILLUSTRATION - PLANET - SATELLITE - SATURN - SATURN'S MOON - TITAN -