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03/07/2004 10:23 am - Copyright NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
This is a mosaic of images of Titan's south polar region from
Cassini-Huygens, taken at a distance of 339 000 kilometres on 2
July 2004. These images were acquired through special filters
designed to see through the thick haze and atmosphere. The
surface features become more blurry toward the limb, where the
light reflected off the surface must pass through more
atmosphere before reaching the camera. The bright spots near the
bottom represent a field of clouds near the south pole. There
are many strange dark and bright patterns on Titan's surface -
linear, sinuous and circular - whose origins are not yet
understood. The smallest features detected on the surface are
about 10 kilometres wide.