This composite image shows a mosaic of the European Space Agency's Huygens
probe landing site, as seen by the descent imager/spectral radiometer on
the Huygens probe. The mosaic is overlaid on a Cassini orbiter radar
image. The radar image was taken on an Oct. 28, 2005, flyby. The landing
site, marked by the red "X," is located at 192.3 degrees west, 10.3
degrees south (southern hemisphere of Titan).
Identifying the landing site will improve the understanding of Titan to be
gained by comparing localized data that the probe returned with
larger-scale observations by the orbiter.
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.
