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Titan's Surface Revealed

Target Name:  Titan
Spacecraft:  Cassini Orbiter
Instrument:  Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
Produced by:  NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Copyright: NASA Copyright Free Policy
Cross Reference:  PIA06407
Date Released: 4 July 2004

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Piercing the ubiquitous layer of smog enshrouding Titan, these images from the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer reveals an exotic surface covered with a variety of materials in the southern hemisphere.

Using near-infrared colors -- some three times deeper in the red visible to the human eye -- these images reveal the surface with unusual clarity. The color image shows a false-color combination of the three previous images (see PIA06405). The yellow areas correspond to the hydrocarbon-rich regions, while the green areas are the icier regions. Here, the methane cloud appears white, as it is bright in all three colors.

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