American space agency NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has sent back home some amazing photos of Saturn’s largest moon titan. The images instead of the hazy atmosphere show Titan’s surface clearly.

The composite image shows the area of Titan that faces towards Saturn. It also shows the dark, dune-filled regions of Fensal to the north and Aztlan to the south, which together form the shape of a sideways letter H.

According to experts, the largest moon of Saturn is tidal locked, which means that the same side of the moon always faces towards Saturn. It is the same way as the moon is tidal locked to earth.

Cassini flew close to Titan during its November 13 flyby. Its fly as close as 10,000 kilometers was considerably higher than typical flybys at 1,200 kilometers. This close flyby of the rich and complex world of Titan helped researchers to capture moderate-resolution views over wide areas, with a resolution of a few kilometers per pixel.

The recent image of Titan was taken at near-infrared wavelengths that penetrated the thick orange haze of Titan’s atmosphere. The image shows different levels of details due to the different altitudes the individual pictures were taken from.

The colors that are shown in the picture are actually false and represent the wavelengths of light collected by Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIMS) instrument.

According to NASA the images taken by Cassini orbiter shows earth-like processes that are shaping the surface of titan. Titan is covered with tall dunes, river channels and great lakes, and is the only moon in our solar system to have a thick atmosphere.