Titan's veil begins to lift as Cassini's cameras peer through the hazy
moon.
This image acquired at a range of 344,000 kilometers (213,700 miles)
shows details at Titan's surface never seen before. The image shows only
surface brightness no topographic shading. The finest features are less
than 10 kilometers (6 miles) across. In other areas the surface boundaries
are less distinct perhaps due to different geologic process or atmospheric
effects. There are some linear features that could be impact craters but
the fact that many features are linear suggests that other geologic
processes are shaping the surface.
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 Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras,
were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based
at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.
