It's -179C and its lakes are liquid methane (the gas cows emit when they pass wind), but at least Saturn's moon Titan looks beautiful.

Nasa's unmanned spacecraft Cassini captured this picture of the sun glinting off Titan's north polar seas.

You wouldn't be able to see this with your naked eye because the moon's atmosphere is so thick and hazy.

Instead Cassini's infrared mapping captured the image.

It's the first time Cassini has managed to photograph the sunglint (called a specular reflection) and the seas at the same time.

The other reason scientists are excited is because they can see a "bathtub ring" around the lake called 'Kraken Mare', just above the sunglint. The orange areas are evaporation.

This means that the sea was larger at some point and has evaporated, leaving deposits of methane and ethane behind (like you see when you haven't cleaned the bath for a while).

This image was captured in August but Nasa has only just released them. Scientists at Nasa merged three of the strongest images together to create this spectacular shot.

Cassini has been monitoring Titan since 2004. The mission, which is a project of US, European and Italian space agencies, is scheduled to last until at least 2017.

Scientists are particularly interested in Titan as they believe that this moon might be similar to what Earth was like in its early years, even though it is much colder than anywhere on our planet. Like Earth Titan has an atmosphere and also experiences seasons, although each one is seven years long.

These images focus on the north pole, but another recent discovery at Nasa showed there was giant, toxic cloud hovering over the south pole, which scientists are still investigating.

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