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Piercing Titan's veil

Piercing Titan's veil
Piercing Titan's veil Amateur image processor Judy Schmidt created this view of Titan using Cassini wideband RGB filter images combined with a sharpened infrared luminosity overlay to bring out the surface details that are normally completely enshrouded by Titan's atmosphere. The data used were acquired by Cassini on 19 February 2013. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Judy Schmidt

Filters used to create the image:

Luminosity overlay: CB3 938N
Red: RED 650W
Green: GRN 568W
Blue: BL1 451W