File:Surface Features Cover Saturn's Moon, Titan (1994-55-253).tiff

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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.

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English: 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.
Date 8 November 1994 (upload date)
Source Surface Features Cover Saturn's Moon, Titan
Author Credit: University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory; STScI
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Moons; Planets; Saturn; Solar System

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