Voyager 2 obtained this view of Titan, Saturn's
largest satellite, Aug. 22 from a range of 4.5 million kilometers
(2.7 million miles). Separate violet, blue and green frames were
combined to make this photograph, in which cloud features of diameter
greater than 85 km. (50 mi.) are visible. Seen here are the bright
southern hemisphere and the dark north polar region. At this resolution,
Titan appears to be completely shrouded by a thick atmosphere;
visible features consist of cloud bands parallel to the equator.
There is the suggestion of a northern hemisphere feature diagonal
to the equator, but this is the result of a loss of data in one
of the images used to compose this photograph. The Voyager project
is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,
Calif. (P-23929)
