First images from Titan


First image of Titan
 
First images from Titan
 
14 January 2005
 
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.

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)

Related articles

 •  Huygens lands in Titanian mud (http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM5YW71Y3E_index_0.html)
 •  View from ten kilometres high (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMA6U71Y3E_0.html)
 •  New images from Titan (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMC8Q71Y3E_0.html)
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 •  Radio astronomers confirm Huygens entry in the atmosphere of Titan (http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM8ZK71Y3E_index_0.html)

Related links

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