A moon you haven't seen 1000x: I composed Saturn's moon Dione crossing in front of Titan, seen from Cassini spacecraft - a red-green-blue sequence of images for color showing it's movement over three minutesThat-Soup3492 t1_j3ehsj3 wrote
So the colored spheres are Titan in the background?
Riegel_Haribo OP t1_j3ejawt wrote
Correct! Dione is the half-cratered small moon in the foreground (it has distinct geography in each hemisphere), while the large moon Titan with it's dense near-uniform atmosphere is moving in the background. You can also see the haze of Titan's high level atmosphere on the left. The visual color of Titan (when it is not evading capture) is like the orange-yellow at the dark edge of Dione.
That-Soup3492 t1_j3ekary wrote
It's cool to me that the giant gas planets have moons that would be dwarf planets if they were on their own, but the only rocky planet with a moon like that... is us.
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