This composite image shows a massive mountain range running just south of
Titan's equator. Near the center of the image, the mountain range runs
from southeast to northwest. It is about 150 kilometers long (93 miles)
and 30 kilometers (19 miles) wide and about 1.5 kilometers (nearly a mile)
high. This range, and smaller ranges to the west and east of the main
range, probably results from material welling up below as the crust of
Titan is pulled apart by tectonic forces.
This image was obtained during an Oct. 25 flyby designed to obtain the
highest resolution infrared views of Titan yet. Cassini's visual and
infrared mapping spectrometer resolved surface features as small as 400
meters (1,300 feet). This composite image was taken at a distance of
12,000 kilometers (7,200 miles) from Titan. This image was
constructed from images taken at wavelengths of 1.3 microns shown in blue,
2 microns shown in green, and 5 microns shown in red.
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
Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Visual
and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer team is based at the University of
Arizona where this image was produced.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/. The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer
team homepage is at http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu.