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View from ten kilometres high

17 January 2005

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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.

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

Credits: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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