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Collection:
NASA Cassini-Huygens Collection
Title:
Titan's Varied Terrain
Description:
Titan's Varied Terrain
Full Description:
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.n….

Credit: ESA/NASA/Univ. of Arizona
Date:
January 15, 2005
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Titan
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Cassini
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Cassini-Huygens
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Huygens Probe
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Titan
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Cassini Orbiter
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Descent Imager
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Imager
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Spectral Radiometer
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Saturn
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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California
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Washington
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Arizona
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Washington, D.C.
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January 14, 2005
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January 15, 2005
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2005
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SPD-SATRN-1309
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Titan's Varied Terrain