Fact Sheet
Seeing Yellow
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is partially hidden by the planet's rings in this recent view from the Cassini orbiter. The craft was viewing the rings almost edge-on, so they appear as a thin sheet. Titan, which was on the opposite side of
the rings from Cassini, appears both yellow and fuzzy because it's surrounded by a thick, cold atmosphere topped by an organic haze similar to smog. [Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI]
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