Friday, February 6, 2015

3.3 APOD

Titan seas reflect sunlight. The sunlight from the liquid seas of titan. Saturns moon has many smooth lakes made of methane,when the angle is right it reflects the sunlight as if they where mirrors.This picture is falsely colored and the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn image captured titian last summer in different bans of cloud piercing infrared light.The reflection is so bright it saturated Cassini infrared cameras. The reflection regions confirms that northern titans houses a wide complex array of seas with geometry that indicates periods of evaporation.This is on of our most mysterious moons. Cassini has revealed titan to be a world with active weather. The times it raids on Titan it rains a liquefied version of natural gas
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