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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2025 May 3

Explanation: Like Earth's moon, is locked in synchronous rotation with its planet. of images recorded by the Cassini spacecraft in May of 2012 shows its anti-Saturn side, the side away from the ringed gas giant. The only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere, Titan is the only besides Earth known to have standing bodies of liquid on its surface and an earthlike cycle of and evaporation. Its high altitude layer of atmospheric haze is evident in the Cassini view of the 5,000 kilometer diameter moon over Saturn's rings and cloud tops. the dark dune-filled region known as . The Cassini-delivered Huygens probe rests below and left of center, after the for a spacecraft from Earth.

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NASA Official: Amber Straughn .

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