Saturn From the Surface of TitanBy Chris Butler

Saturn from Titan Artwork of the planet Saturn viewed through the atmosphere of its largest moon Titan Titans surface is ice and rock but it has a thick atmosphere of nitrogen and organic compounds mainly methane and ethane This gives the moon its characteristic orange colour The atmosphere may resemble that of a primitive Earth containing the organic compounds from which life originated Saturn is the second largest of the planets in the solar system having a diameter in excess of kilometres It is the sixth most distant planet from the Sun