I think Saturn is the biggest part of the picture.. you just can't see nearly the whole thing at all since Titan is the focus....
Yup. The entire background of the image is Saturn.
Mine is Uranus
jokes aside, is this a real picture, as seen by naked eye or some infrared, ultrasound or some crap like that?
It's natural color. Titan looks weird like that because of its thick, hazy atmosphere. (Denser than Earth's.)
The smaller moon is Dione. Yes, it really is that gray and colorless.
Nice pic, but since Nasa photoshops the sh!t out of their releases, I'm simply not impressed with this one.
Examples?
The one in the OP might have had some cleanups done to remove
static from cosmic ray hits on the CCD, but other than that, they will radiometrically calibrate the images (multiple B&W images are taken through different color filters), and then combine them. This is very nearly true color.
Nice pic, but for ffs NASA needs to upload 30mb pics instead of craptacular resolution.
Many of their recent imagers are 1024x1024 resolution. Things like this are just single type shots, done with multiple filters for color, though they probably also capture additional images using wavelength filters beyond what we can see.
To get the huge images, they have to get a lot of pictures, which are then combined back on Earth. Just to get an approximate natural-color view, each image must be taken 3x, with the red, green, and blue filters. Some of
the large collages require hundreds of snapshots. ("Image-to-image seams have been eliminated from the sky portion of the mosaic to better simulate the vista a person standing on Mars would see." That one's also approximate true-color - the red filter is a bit into the infrared.) And you want resolution?
Here's the 65MB version.
This is what they'd look like without the seam removal. Oh well.
We need to send people to Titan. Forget Mars, Titan has water, that means we can create oxygen for settlements.
Yes, but it's quite literally hard as rocks here on Earth. And to get oxygen from water, you're going to need energy. Yes, Titan has an abundance of hydrocarbons, which you could burn for energy, if only you had some oxygen.
:hmm:
Brb, violating thermodynamics.
(Oh, and Mars does have water. It's also frozen.)
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