Slipping into shadow, the south polar vortex at Saturn’s moon Titan still stands out against the orange and blue haze layers that are characteristic of Titan’s atmosphere.
The image was snapped by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
Originally published by Cosmos as Vortex on Titan’s bottom
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