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/.