                  APOD: 2018 May 26 - Titan: Moon over Saturn

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                                  2018 May 26
                                      [2]
                           Titan: Moon over Saturn
    Image Credit: NASA [3] , JPL-Caltech [4] , Space Science Institute [5]

Explanation: Like Earth's moon, Saturn's largest moon Titan [6] is locked in
synchronous rotation. This mosiac [7] of images recorded by the Cassini
spacecraft in May of 2012 show's its anti-Saturn side, the side always facing
[8]  away from the ringed gas giant. The only moon in the solar system with a
dense atmosphere, Titan is the only solar system world [9]  besides Earth
known to have standing bodies of liquid on its surface and an earthlike cycle
of liquid rain [10]  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 [11]  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 [12] for a spacecraft from
Earth.

                    Tomorrow's picture: coronal rain [13]

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