This image compares streaked terrain on Titan and Mars. At left is an
image from Cassini of the region where the Huygens probe is expected to
land. At right is a picture from NASA's Viking 1 orbiter, showing streaks
on Mars caused by winds blowing from right to left. The streaks at the
Huygens landing site were formed by some kind of fluid, possibly wind,
moving from the upper left to lower right (west to east).
The Cassini image was taken on Oct. 26, 2004, by the spacecraft's imaging
science subsystem using near-infrared filters. North is 45 degrees to the
right of vertical. The scale of this image is 0.83 kilometers (.52 miles)
per pixel.
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 imaging team
is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For the latest news about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://www.nasa.gov/cassini. For more information about the mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.
