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PIA07235: Titan Descent
 Target Name:  Titan
 Is a satellite of:  Saturn
 Mission:  Cassini-Huygens
 Spacecraft:  Huygens Probe
 Instrument:  Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer
 Product Size:  964 x 776 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  European Space Agency (ESA)
 Primary Data Set:  Cassini
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA07235.tif (516.6 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA07235.jpg (76.17 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This picture is a composite of 30 images from ESA's Huygens probe. They were taken from an altitude varying from 13 kilometers down to 8 kilometers when the probe was descending towards its landing site.

The images have a resolution of about 20 meters per pixel and cover an area extending out to 30 kilometers.

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

Image Addition Date:
2005-01-18