Aerial View of Titan from 10 km Altitude
Date: 05 May 2006
Satellite: Huygens
Depicts: DISR image of Titan taken during the descent
Copyright: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
This image is a Mercator projection of a Huygens view of Titan, taken at 10 kilometres altitude (in a Mercator projection the cardinal directions are kept intact – they cross at right angles – but surface areas are distorted). The image was taken during the Huygens probe's descent by the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR), on 14 January 2005.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project between NASA, ESA and Italy's ASI space agency.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
