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Thu Oct-28-04 09:36 AM
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| 4. This is a false color picture.. |
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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.
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on edit: I didn't answer your Q, Yes that is the atmosphere, but it is not really blue.
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