Northern Summer on Titan
| APOD
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA,
NASA
While yesterday’s solstice brought summer to planet Earth’s
northern hemisphere, a northern summer
solstice arrived
for ringed planet Saturn nearly a month ago on May 24. Following the
Saturnian
seasons, its large moon Titan was
captured in this Cassini spacecraft
image
from June 9. The near-infrared view finds bright methane clouds drifting through
Titan’s northern summer skies as seen from a distance of
about 507,000 kilometers. Below Titan’s clouds, dark
hydrocarbon lakes sprawl near
the large moon’s now illuminated north pole.
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