Saturn floats in the background above Titan

The ringed gas-giant Saturn floats some 1, 220, 000 kilometres in the background beyond Titan. The orange cloud-cover of Titan is made up almost entirely of nitrogen with traces of methane, ethane and other gases. Titan is the second largest satellite in the solar system with a diameter of 5150 kilometres. Beneath the heavy cloud cover lies a rock and ice surface with oceans of liquid methane. The Cassini-Huygens Probe landed January 18, 2005 on the rocky pebble-strewn terrain of Titan after sinking through miles-thick smog

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