Titan's
thick haze layer is shown in this enhanced Voyager 1 image taken
Nov. 12, 1980 at a distance of 435,000 km.
Voyager images of Saturn's largest moon show Titan completely enveloped
by haze that merges with a darker "hood" or cloud layer
over the north pole. Such a mantle is not present at the south pole.
At Voyager's closest approach to Titan on Nov. 11, 1980, spacecraft
instruments found that the moon has a substantial atmosphere, far
denser than that of Mars and possibly denser than Earth's.
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