Titan photometric parameters

Abstract

Measurements of the irradiance of Titan from 0.05 to 1.08 micrometer were carried out by 60-inch reflector, spectrometer, and pulse counting electronics. An approximate contour of the geometric albedo assumes methane is the principal absorber. The albedo of Titan reaches a maximum value of 0.37 at 0.68, 0.753, and 0.83 micrometers, while in the center of the strongest absorption features, at 0.89 and 1.0. micrometer, it falls to 0.10. Comparison with the methane bands of Jupiter and Saturn indicates that the maxima clearly do not represent the continuum and that the lower values may well be depressed by wings of methane bands adjacent to them.