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Coasts and drowned mountains on Titan

23 May 2007

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During its 31st flyby of Saturn's moon Titan, the RADAR instrument on board the Cassini spacecraft obtained this image showing the coastline and an archipelago in a portion of a large sea, consistent with the larger sea seen by the Cassini imaging instrument.

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