This perspective view shows dark plains on the surface of Saturn's moon
Titan about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the Huygens probe landing site.
In this area many discrete bright feature are scattered across the dark
plains.
This provides stereo coverage with a resolution of about 45 feet per pixel
(about 14 meters) and a convergence angle of about 6 degrees. The
perspective image is color-coded in altitude with blue lowest and red
highest. The ridges in the center of the view are about 150 feet-high
(roughly 50 meters); the area covered is about 1.6 miles by 1.6 miles
(2.5 by 2.5 kilometers). The topographic features toward the bottom right
part of the view are suggestive of flow and erosion by fluids on the
surface.
A stereo pair of images (insert) was acquired from the Huygens descent
imager/spectral radiometer. The left image was acquired from 8 miles
(12.2 kilometers) above the surface with the high resolution imager; the
right from 4 miles (6.9 kilometers) altitude with the medium resolution
imager.
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.
