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Shangri-la and other Equatorial Regions of Titan
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Caption NASA:"This view of Titan's surface highlights NorthWestern Shangri-la - a large, Equatorial Dark Region revealed by radar observations to be covered in longitudinal dune fields. The bright, circular feature right of center is a potential impact crater - few of which have been spotted on Titan thus far.
North on Titan is up and rotated about 15° to the right. This view was created by combining multiple images taken using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 938 and 619 nanometers.
The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 13, 2007 at a distance of approx. 125.000 Km (about 77.000 miles) from Titan. Image scale is roughly 1 Km (0,6 miles) per pixel. Due to scattering of light by Titan's hazy atmosphere, the sizes of surface features that can be resolved are a few times larger than the actual pixel scale".
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