A Distant Flyby of Saturn's Moon Titan (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

A Distant Flyby of Saturn's Moon Titan

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This true color image captured by NASA'S Cassini spacecraft before a distant flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on June 27, 2012, shows a south polar vortex, or a mass of swirling gas around the pole in the atmosphere of the moon.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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