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How The World Watched Huygens
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 28, 2006 This image provides a comparison between the Huygens landing site on Titan as viewed by the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem and the NACO/SDI instrument mounted on the 8-meter Yepun telescope of the Very Large Telescope in Chile. From the two images it is possible to see a high consistency between the two measurements. The Cassini image - taken in the near-infrared (938 nanometers)- shows the Huygens landing site map wrapped around Titan, rotated to the same position as the January 2005 NACO/SDI observations. The colored lines outline the regions imaged by Cassini at different resolutions. The lower-resolution imaging sequences are outlined in blue. Other areas have been specifically targeted to build moderate and high resolution mosaics of surface features. These include the site where the Huygens probe has touched down Jan. 14, 2005, marked with the yellow X, and located at 10.3 degrees south latitude and 192.32 degrees west longitude (or 167.7 degrees east). The landing site is located on the boundary between the bright region called Adiri and the dark one called Shangri-la. The red color on the NACO/SDI image corresponds to an atmospheric filter at 1.625 micron, while the blue color represents a filter for the surface at 1.600 micron and 1.575 micron. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Cassini-Huygens home Cassini images Explore The Ring World of Saturn and her moons Jupiter and its Moons The million outer planets of a star called Sol News Flash at Mercury
Saturn Ring Spokes Appear Again
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 27, 2006This image from the Cassini spacecraft shows a ghostly white streak, called a spoke, in Saturn's B ring. This is the first sighting of a spoke in nearly a year, and the first spoke seen by Cassini on the sunlit side of the rings. It also is the first spoke seen at high phase angle - meaning the angle formed between the Sun, the rings and Cassini. |
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