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The surface of Titan (again)
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Original caption:"Images from the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descent imager/spectral radiometer side-looking imager and from the medium resolution imager, acquired after landing, were merged to produce this image.
The horizon's position implies a pitch of the imager/spectral radiometer, nose-upward, by 1 to 2° with no measurable roll. The "stones" (?) in the foreground are 4 to 6" (10 to 15 cm) in size, presumably made of water ice and these lie on a darker, finer-grained substrate.
A region with a relatively low number of rocks lies between clusters of rocks in the foreground and the background and matches the general orientation of channel-like features in the panorama of PIA06439.
The scene evokes the possibility of a dry lakebed".
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