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Titanian "Sierras"
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Caption NASA originale"This composite image shows a massive mountain range running just south of Titan's Equator. Near the center of the image, the mountain range runs from South-East to North-West. It is about 150 Km long (approx. 93 miles) and 30 Km (about 19 miles) wide and approx. 1,5 Km (nearly a mile) high.
This range and smaller ranges to the West and East of the main range, probably results from material welling up below as the crust of Titan is pulled apart by tectonic forces.
This image was obtained during an Oct. 25 flyby designed to obtain the highest resolution infrared views of Titan yet. Cassini's VIMS resolved surface features as small as 400 meters (1,300 feet).
This composite image was taken at a distance of about 12.000 Km (7.200 miles) from Titan. This image was constructed from images taken at wavelengths of 1,3 microns shown in blue, 2 microns shown in green and 5 microns shown in red".
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