Shown here are two images of the expected landing site of Cassini's
Huygen's probe (latitude 10.6 S, longitude 191 W). At right is a
wide-angle image showing most of Titan's disc, with a scale of 10
kilometers (6.2 miles) per pixel. At left is a narrow-angle image of the
landing site at a scale of 0.83 kilometers (.5 miles) per pixel (location
shown by black box at right). North is tilted about 45 degrees from the
top of both images. The surface has bright and dark markings with a
streamlined pattern consistent with motion from a fluid, such as the
atmosphere, moving from west to east (upper left to lower right). The
image at left is 400 kilometers (249 miles) wide. Both images were taken
by Cassini's imaging science subsystem through near-infrared filters.
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 Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras,
were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based
at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.
