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Views of Titan from Different Altitudes

Color images of Titan's surface
Photojournal: PIA08119
Source: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Published: May 4, 2006

This poster shows a set of images acquired by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descent imager/spectral radiometer, in the four cardinal directions (north, south, east, west), at five different altitudes above Titan's surface. 

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