Closest Image of Titan: Atmosphere Revealed

[marcus]

BBC article today
closest image of Titan, 750 miles
atmosphere fairly transparent, bluish
surface features visible, but no lakes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3953187.stm

 

[Chronos]

Be interesting to see later images. There appears to be a good deal of atmospheric activity. Hard to tell what might be surface features vs cloud formations.

 

[check]

I'm thinking the atmosphere appears to be fairly transparent because the pictures were taken in infrared. I think in the visible specturm it's just a thick, orange haze.

 

[Math Is Hard]

I'm not particularly interested in any data until the Huygens probe actually enters the atmosphere. THAT'S going to be exciting. Cool! - they quoted my friend Kevin in the article. I am going to have to bug him about the pictures. I was expecting ethane oceans to be apparent from the images.