Titan (T13) Viewed by Cassini's Radar
Flat Map (annotated)
This map of Saturn's moon Titan shows the location of the upcoming April
30, 2006, Titan flyby and the areas mapped so far by the Cassini radar
mapper using its synthetic aperture radar imaging mode.
Longitudes are labeled at the bottom of the map. The radar swaths are
superimposed on a false-color image made from observations by NASA's
Hubble Space Telescope.
The swath shown in light green represents the area to be imaged in the
upcoming April 30 flyby. It will go right across an optically bright
region of Titan known as Xanadu. See PIA08099 for another view of this pass.
The far left image shows the location of the radar swath for the Oct. 28,
2005, flyby. On the top right is the radar swath from the first Titan
flyby, on Oct. 26, 2004. The second from the top image is from the second
radar pass of Titan, on Feb. 15, 2005 (near-equatorial). The bottom right
swath is from the Sept. 7, 2005, flyby.
Cassini's radar has revealed a variety of geologic features, including
impact craters, wind-blown deposits, channels and cryovolcanic features.
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.
