Hubble image archive
Surface Features Cover Saturn's Moon, Titan
Four global projections of the HST Titan data, separated in longitude by 90 degrees. Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. Upper right: leading hemisphere (brightest region). Lower left: the hemisphere which never faces Saturn. Lower right: trailing hemisphere. Not that these ass...
- Date
- Jan 1, 1994
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-1994-55-253-image
Four global projections of the HST Titan data, separated in longitude by 90 degrees. Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. Upper right: leading hemisphere (brightest region). Lower left: the hemisphere which never faces Saturn. Lower right: trailing hemisphere. Not that these assignments assume that the rotation is synchronous. The imaging team says its data strongly support this assumption - a longer time baseline is needed for proof. The surface near the poles is never visible to an observer in Titan's equatorial plane because of the large optical path.
Credits
Credit: University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory; STScIImage Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Titan |
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