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PIA07239: Titan Landing Site Seen From Cassini
 Target Name:  Titan
 Is a satellite of:  Saturn
 Mission:  Cassini-Huygens
 Spacecraft:  Cassini Orbiter
Huygens Probe
 Instrument:  Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer 
 Product Size:  1079 x 896 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  University of Arizona/VIMS
 Primary Data Set:  Cassini
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA07239.tif (981.2 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA07239.jpg (55.06 kB)

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Figure 1

A view of Titan from the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument on the Cassini orbiter. The Huygens probe landed in the small red circle on the boundary of the bright and dark regions. The size of the circle shows the field of view of the Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) instrument from an altitude of 20 kilometers (about 12 miles).

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. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit, http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. For more information about the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer visit http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu/.

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

Image Addition Date:
2005-01-21