
A background star is caught within Titan’s atmosphere, as seen by Cassini during its May 5 flyby, seemingly trapped between the cloudtops and high haze layer that surrounds the moon.

Eventually the star sinks behind the enshrouding clouds, its light eclipsed by the moon. See image at right.
These images are raw and uncalibrated. They were received on Earth today, May 7, two days after they were taken by the spacecraft. (It takes that long for the data to travel 800 million miles through space to the computers in Boulder, CO.)
The moon’s north pole is rotated 90º to the left in these images.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Actually, I think Titan’s north is more or less straight up in your image. The raws are usually rotated so north is generally to the right – due to the way the cameras were installed – so you rotating them 90 degrees makes the north point up.
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Oh…well, even better! Happy accident.
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