The last time NASA presented images of Titan

The mission Cassini is considered one of the most successful programs of NASA.

The space Agency published a picture of Saturn’s moon Titan were taken by Cassini camera.

The cover the territory of about 300 kilometers, according to the NASA website.

The dark areas in the picture is the smooth plains, and the lighter parts of the image – it’s a hilly surface. According to experts NASA, during the 13 years that have come since the first radar studies of Titan by the Cassini spacecraft, the moon’s surface has not changed significantly.

In addition, scientists during a recent flyby, Cassini was able to re-measure the depth of all eight lakes of Titan, which amounted to about one hundred meters. Experts do not exclude that the reservoirs can be connected subsurface channels.

“Now that Cassini has completed its study, we can fairly consider in detail what it’s like world of Titan”, – said the expert on the radar of the Cassini probe, Steve Walt from the jet propulsion laboratory of NASA in Pasadena.

Note that Cassini was launched October 15, 1997 and July 1, 2004 went into orbit around Saturn. The probe will cease to exist in September 2017, drowned in the planet’s atmosphere.

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