This Synthetic Aperture Radar image of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan
was obtained by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 7, 2005. The bright, rough
region on the left side of the image seems to be topographically high
terrain that is cut by channels and bays.
The boundary of the bright (rough) region and the dark (smooth) region
appears to be a shoreline. The patterns in the dark area indicate that it
may once have been flooded, with the liquid having at least partially
receded.
The image is 175 kilometers high and 330 kilometers wide (109 miles by 205
miles), and is located at 66 degrees south latitude, 356 degrees west
longitude in the southern hemisphere of Titan.
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
Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar
instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with
team members from the United States and several European countries.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
