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Cassini's View of Titan Landing Site (Unlabeled)

black and white image showing Huygens landing area
Published: January 21, 2005

A view of Titan from the VIMS instrument on the Cassini orbiter. The Huygens probe landed in the small red circle on the boundary of the bright and dark regions. The size of the circle shows the field of view of the Huygens DISR imager from an altitude of 20 kilometers.

Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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