Titan's surface
Titan's trailing hemisphere with the Huygens landing site marked as an "X". The left image was taken with NACO and a narrow-band filter centred at 2 microns. On the right is the NACO/SDI image of the same location showing Titan's surface through the 1.6 micron methane window. A spherical projection with coordinates on Titan is overplotted.
Credit:
ESO
About the Image
| Id: | eso0505a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 24 February 2005 |
| Related releases: | eso0505 |
| Size: | 1423 x 657 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Titan |
| Type: | • Solar System : Planet : Satellite • X - Solar System |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Infrared 1600 |
Very Large Telescope NACO |
| Infrared 2000 |
Very Large Telescope NACO |
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