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Explicatie: (Edit)
Why would the surface of Titan light up with a blinding flash?
The reason: a
sunglint from liquid seas.
Saturn's moon
Titan has numerous smooth
lakes of methane that, when the angle is right,
reflect sunlight as if they were mirrors.
Pictured here in false-color, the
robotic Cassini spacecraft
orbiting Saturn imaged the
cloud-covered Titan last summer in different bands of cloud-piercing
infrared light.
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Autori & editori:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
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