Image: PIA18410-TitanSunsetStudies-CassiniSpacecraft-20140527

Description: Cassini Observes Sunsets on Titan (Artist's Rendering) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA18410 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-164 Using data collected by Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, or VIMS, while observing Titan's sunsets, researchers created simulated spectra of Titan as if it were a planet transiting across the face of a distant star. The research helps scientists to better understand observations of exoplanets with hazy atmospheres. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA. The VIMS team is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
Title: PIA18410-TitanSunsetStudies-CassiniSpacecraft-20140527
Credit: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA18410.jpg
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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