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Keck Observatory Titan Monitoring Project |
Titan imaged on 15 February, 2005 with the Keck 2 telescope and adaptive optics system, just 23 minutes before the Cassini spacecraft's third flyby of the moon. Cassini's controlers maneuvered the spacefaring robot to within 1600 km of the surface on this pass, skimming through the uppermost regions of Titan's thick, hazy atmosphere. Titan's surface appears red in this near-infrared color composite, while haze layers at progressively higher altitudes in the atmosphere appear green and blue. These colors correspond to images taken through filters centered at 2.06, 2.13 and 2.27 microns wavelength. Credit: Antonin Bouchez (W.M. Keck Observatory), Elliot Young (Southwest Research Institute), and Carrie Anderson (New Mexico State University).
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