In Photos: Stunning Views of Titan from Cassini

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Titan interior

somberness - playing area datum collected by Cassini instruments propose Titan ’s interior is a parky mix of ice studded with rock , though it seems the outermost cuticle of Titan ( down to about 300 mi or 500 kilometer ) is innocent of any John Rock . The layers in the Titan creative person ’s example show the moon ’s hazy surface ( yellowish ) , an ice layer get going near the control surface ( light grey ) , a potential internal ocean ( sorry ) , another layer of ice ( wanton gray ) and a mix fo rock and ice-skating rink in the interior ( dark gray ) .

An artist’s conception showing the layers of Saturn’s moon Titan.

an infrared view of a moon showing surface details through the haze of its atmosphere

Mosaic of Saturn taken by NASA�s Cassini spacecraft on November 20, 2017. Source -NASA & JPL-Caltech & Space Science Institute

an illustration showing a close up of Saturn and its rings with a small spacecraft orbiting around it

A satellite image of a thin wispy ring of clouds above the ocean

An astronaut photo of a lake in the desert that is half red and half green surrounded by lots of dark circular dots

A photo of the sun setting from the Moon

Mars in late spring. William Herschel believed the light areas were land and the dark areas were oceans.

The sun launched this coronal mass ejection at some 900 miles/second (nearly 1,500 km/s) on Aug. 31, 2012. The Earth is not this close to the sun; the image is for scale purposes only.

These star trails are from the Eta Aquarids meteor shower of 2020, as seen from Cordoba, Argentina, at its peak on May 6.

Mars� moon Phobos crosses the face of the sun, captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover with its Mastcam-Z camera. The black specks to the left are sunspots.