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Heyo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-28-04 09:36 AM
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4. This is a false color picture..
Edited on Thu Oct-28-04 09:38 AM by Heyo
.. from images taken in UV and infared wavelengths. To look at Titan with your naked eye, all you would see is a featureless orange ball, a result of the very thick shroud of haze that blankets the entire planet.

This flyby was an effort to use instruments to peer beneath that haze to catch a glimpse of the surface features.

The sky if you were standing on Titan would be a really thick orange fog, letting in very little sunlight, and very very cold.

Heyo

on edit: I didn't answer your Q, Yes that is the atmosphere, but it is not really blue.
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  -Saturn's moon Titan *begins* to give up soms secrets.. (cool pic) Heyo  Oct-28-04 09:24 AM   #0 
  - Beautiful pic. Very enticing.  Ready4Change   Oct-28-04 09:30 AM   #1 
  - Well..  Heyo   Oct-28-04 09:35 AM   #3 
  - Is That Blue the Atmosphere?  ribofunk   Oct-28-04 09:33 AM   #2 
  - This is a false color picture..  Heyo   Oct-28-04 09:36 AM   #4 
  - Nice  redqueen   Oct-28-04 09:38 AM   #5 
  - Very nice - we need to fund more robotic missions  gulfcoastliberal   Oct-28-04 09:59 AM   #6 
  - I disagree...  Heyo   Oct-28-04 10:10 AM   #7 
     - Where would we go? You mean permanent colonies?  gulfcoastliberal   Oct-28-04 11:00 AM   #8 
        - I am definitely 100 percent all for robotic probes..  Heyo   Oct-28-04 11:28 AM   #10 
  - Titan actually has a very thick atmosphere  Zuni   Oct-28-04 11:14 AM   #9 
 

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