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SUMMARY: On Cassini's recent flyby of Titan, scientists discovered that Saturn's largest moon has a surprising number of layers of haze in its atmosphere. These layers of haze extend several hundred kilometres above the moon's surface. This image was taken in ultraviolet, and then colourized on computer to look like natural colour.
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I wonder if the dark layers are more opaque, less reflective for lack of particles or suspended ices, or hot zones with little density.
It is very odd thinking about an atmosphere that looks like that when seen edge-on.
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