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Annotated View of Titan's Surface
This poster shows a composite view from the descent imager/spectral
radiometer taken while the European Space Agency's Huygens probe was
setting on Titan's surface, juxtaposed with a similarly scaled picture
taken on the Moon's surface. Objects near the center of the picture are
roughly the size of a man's foot. Objects at the horizon are a fraction
of a man's height. The Huygens image was taken on Jan. 14, 2005.
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. The
descent imager/spectral radiometer team is based at the University of
Arizona, Tucson.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
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ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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