APOD: 2021 January 9 - Titan: Moon over Saturn

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Saturday, January 9, 2021 entitled "Titan: Moon over Saturn"

Image: Titan - Moon over Saturn - Image Credit - NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute
Black & White photography captures nuances that are blurred in color photographs IMHO.


APOD Background
"Explanation: Like Earth's moon, Saturn's largest moon Titan is locked in synchronous rotation. This mosaic of images recorded by the Cassini spacecraft in May of 2012 shows its anti-Saturn side, the side always facing away from the ringed gas giant. The only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere, Titan is the only solar system world besides Earth known to have standing bodies of liquid on its surface and an earthlike cycle of liquid rain and evaporation. Its high altitude layer of atmospheric haze is evident in the Cassini view of the 5,000 kilometer diameter moon over Saturn's rings and cloud tops. Near center is the dark dune-filled region known as Shangri-La. The Cassini-delivered Huygens probe rests below and left of center, after the most distant landing for a spacecraft from Earth."

Otis Spann - Moon Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pdFYIkz2bk


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What is the make-up of the liquid on Titan? Surly it can't be water (H20). The temps must be very cold on Titan since it is so distant from the Sun?

Another great APOD, good morning Bill.