Images recorded by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descent
imager/spectral radiometer between 4 and 0.3 miles (7 and 0.5 kilometers)
were assembled to produce this panoramic mosaic. The probe ground track
is indicated as points in white. North is up. The ridge near the centre
is cut by a dozen darker lanes or channels. The landing site is marked
with an "X" near the continuation of one of the channels.
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.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
