Titan at 10 kilometres
Titan at 10 kilometres
This image was obtained by assembling 30 frames captured with the European Huygens probe during its descent through Titan's atmosphere. They were made from altitudes between 13 and eight kilometres, as the spacecraft approached its landing site. The images have a resolution of about 20 metres per pixel and represent an area of about 30 kilometres.
During the descent phase through Titan's atmosphere, the Huygens probe dropped almost vertically downward with a speed of about five meters per second. Huygens drifted horizontally at a speed of about one metre per second.
