View from ten kilometres high


 
View from ten kilometres high
 
17 January 2005
 
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. View all raw images.
 
At that stage of its descent, Huygens was dropping almost vertically with a speed 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.
 
 
 Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
  
 

At Saturn and Titan

 •  At 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-Huygens/SEM85Q71Y3E_0.html)

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Related links

 •  NASA JPL Cassini-Huygens site (http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm)
 •  Italian Space Agency (ASI) (http://www.asi.it)