Titan's Surface Revealed

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ July 3, 2004

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

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