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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                    2025 May 3   
      
                              Titan: Moon over Saturn   
             Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute   
      
      Explanation: Like Earth's moon, Saturn's largest moon Titan is locked   
      in synchronous rotation with its planet. This mosaic of images recorded   
      by the Cassini spacecraft in May of 2012 shows its anti-Saturn side,   
      the side always facing away from the ringed gas giant. The only moon in   
      the solar system with a dense atmosphere, Titan is the only solar   
      system world besides Earth known to have standing bodies of liquid on   
      its surface and an earthlike cycle of liquid rain and evaporation. Its   
      high altitude layer of atmospheric haze is evident in the Cassini view   
      of the 5,000 kilometer diameter moon over Saturn's rings and cloud   
      tops. Near center is the dark dune-filled region known as Shangri-La.   
      The Cassini-delivered Huygens probe rests below and left of center,   
      after the most distant landing for a spacecraft from Earth.   
      
                        Tomorrow's picture: black hole spin   
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