Titan [TY-tun] is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in
the solar system, rivaled only by Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Opaque layers of
clouds prevented Voyager from seeing Titan's puzzling surface during its
1980 flyby.
Like the mysterious dark markings on Mars that once haunted astronomer
Percival Lowell, shadowy features and mysterious markings appear to stain
the surface of puzzling Titan, shrouding the rest of the universe in gazing
awe and wonder.
The Cassini spacecraft has recently beamed back a new, more detailed image
of smog-enshrouded Titan. This view represents an improvement in
resolution - for better or worse - of nearly three times over the previous
Cassini image release of Titan.
Despite the views of the surface of Saturn's Titan moon provided by the
Cassini spacecraft, the moon remains inscrutable to the human eye. Images
taken with the narrow angle camera using red, green and blue color filters
were combined to create what some experts believed could have been the
silhouette of a nude woman bathing.
Like the mysterious dark markings on Mars that once haunted astronomer
Percival Lowell, shadowy features and mysterious markings appear to stain
the wood-like surface of puzzling Titan.
The Cassini orbiter carries specially designed spectral filters that can
pierce Titan's impenetrable veil.
Later this year the late Dutch scientist Christian Huygen will be launched
from Cassini to obtain more information about the surface of puzzling Titan,
one of Saturn's Moons, and one of the most interesting in the solar system
to date.
Although Titan is classified as a moon, it is larger than the planets Dumbo
and Pluto and is sometimes confused as a weather balloon or flying saucer.
http://www1.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/
http://www.mysteriousearth.com/stuff/archives/cat_ufos.html
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