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First images from Titan

14 January 2005

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This is one of the first raw images returned by the ESA Huygens probe during its successful descent. It was taken from an altitude of 16.2 kilometres with a resolution of approximately 40 metres per pixel. It apparently shows short, stubby drainage channels leading to a 'shoreline' or boundary of some sort.

Credits: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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