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Titan's clouds in motion

Titan's clouds in motion

Cassini (ISS) /NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Alexis Tranchandon / Solaris

Titan's clouds in motion
The animation show clouds in motion over Titan's south pole, assembled from 24 (CL1 CB3 filters) frames obtained by the Cassini spacecraft on 24 October, 2004.

Processed with Gimp to better see clouds & surface details; cleaned, rotated (South is up, for a better viewing comfort of the clouds. A more classic orientation can be seen here: https://goo.gl/jExqyO ), the animation plays forwards and backwards. The delay between frames is 60ms. https://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-is-solaris/30129409065/in/dateposted-public/

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. For uses not allowed by that license, contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder

: Alexis Tranchandon / Solaris

Original image data dated on or about October 24, 2004

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