PIA07231: Varied Terrain
 Target Name:  Titan
 Is a satellite of:  Saturn
 Mission:  Cassini-Huygens
 Spacecraft:  Huygens Probe
 Instrument:  Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer
 Product Size:  305 x 261 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  European Space Agency (ESA)
 Primary Data Set:  Cassini
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA07231.tif (69.02 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA07231.jpg (10.55 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This composite was produced from images returned yesterday, January 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. It shows the boundary between the lighter-colored uplifted terrain, marked with what appear to be drainage channels, and darker lower areas.

These images were taken from an altitude of about 8 kilometers (about 5 miles) and a resolution of about 20 meters (about 65 feet) per pixel. The images were taken by the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer, one of two NASA instruments on the probe.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Descent Imager/Spectral team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/ESA/University of Arizona

Image Addition Date:
2005-01-15