Titan -- View from ten kilometres high (Forwarded)

ESA News
http://www.esa.int

17 January 2005

Titan -- View from ten kilometres high

This picture is a composite of 30 images from ESA's Huygens probe. They were
taken from an altitude varying from 13 kilometres down to 8 kilometres when the
probe was descending towards its landing site.

At that stage of its descent, Huygens was dropping almost vertically with a
speeed of about 5 metres per second. It was drifting horizontally with a speed
of about 1 metre per second.

These images were taken with a resolution of about 20 metres per pixel and cover
an area extending out to 30 kilometres.

All Huygens raw images are now available.

Related links

* Exploring Saturn and Titan
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html
* Huygens raw images
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/titanraw/index.htm
* Sounds of Titan
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-...5Q71Y3E_0.html
* NASA's Cassini-Huygens site
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov
* Italian Space Agency (ASI)
http://www.asi.it

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http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-...8Q71Y3E_0.html
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http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-...QO71Y3E_0.html
* Press conference presentations (ZIP)
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/..._pr_15_jan.zip
* Europe reaches new frontier -- Huygens lands on Titan
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-...1QQ3K3E_0.html
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