Mountains on Titan. Combined infrared and optical Cassini image of mountains on Titan,the largest moon of Saturn. The mountain range runs diagonally across centre from upper left to lower right. It is 150 kilometres long,30 kilometres wide,and about 1.5 kilometres high. This image was obtained in October 2006 with the Cassini spacecraft's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer,an instrument that allows high resolution viewing down to objects 400 metres across. Titan has a thick atmosphere of nitrogen,making it difficult to see surface features,so mapping of Titan is being carried out using infrared and radar sensors | |
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