A single Huygens Descent Imager/ Spectral Radiometer (DISR) instrument
image shows two new features on the surface of Titan. A bright linear
feature suggests an area where water ice may have been extruded onto the
surface. Also visible are short, stubby dark channels that may have been
formed by 'springs' of liquid methane rather than methane 'rain'.
The Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer is one of two NASA instruments on
the probe.
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 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission
Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard
cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Descent
Imager/Spectral team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. For more information about the Descent
Imager/Spectral Radiometer visit http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~kholso/.
