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PHOTO CAPTION                   (TOP)                P-29496 C
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                                                     1/24/86
  
Voyager 2 obtained this color picture of Titania, one of
Uranus' two largest satellites, on Jan. 22, 1986. The
spacecraft was 3.11 million kilometers (1.93 million miles)
from the satellite and heading for a Jan. 24 closest
approach. This image, which has a resolution of 56 km
(35 mi), is a computer reconstruction from three frames,
exposed with the Voyager narrow-angle camera's clear, orange,
and violet filters. The grayness or apparent lack of strong
color is a distinctive characteristic of the satellites and
the rings of Uranus and can serve as one indicator of the
possible composition of the satellites' surfaces. Titania
has a diameter of about 1,600 km (1,000 mi) and orbits the
planet at a radial dispance of 438,000 km (272,000 mi).
Titania's surface displays areas of lighter and darker
material, probably associated in part with impact craters
formed during its long exposure to bombardment by cosmic
debris. The resolution of this particular image is not
sufficient, however, to reveal with confidence the nature of
these features. The Voyager project is managed for NASA by
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  
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