A network of river channels is located atop Xanadu, the continent-sized
region on Saturn's moon Titan. This radar image was captured by the
Cassini Radar Mapper on April 30, 2006.
These winding, meandering river channels start from the top of the image
and run like a fork in the road, splitting to the right and left of the
image. At Titan's chilly conditions, streams of methane and/or ethane
might flow across parts of the region.
The picture is roughly 230 kilometers (143 miles) wide by 340 kilometers
(211 miles) long, and shows features as small as 500 meters (1,640 feet).
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/home/index.cfm.