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Annotated Stereographic View of Titan's Surface
This poster shows a stereographic (fish-eye) view of Titan's surface from
six different altitudes. The images taken by the European Space Agency's
Huygens probe descent imager/spectral radiometer show the haze layer at
20 to 21 kilometers (12 to 13 miles). The images were taken on Jan. 14,
2005.
The Huygens probe was delivered to Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini
spacecraft, which is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif. NASA supplied two instruments on the probe, the descent
imager/spectral radiometer and the gas chromatograph mass spectrometer.
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 mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
descent imager/spectral radiometer team is based at the University of
Arizona, Tucson.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
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ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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