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Cassini's Final Titan Radar Swath
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Cassini's Final Titan Radar Swath

NASA / JPL · 2017-08-11 · photograph (digital archive)

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During its final targeted flyby of Titan on April 22, 2017, Cassini's radar mapper got the mission's last close look at the moon's surface. On this 127th targeted pass by Titan (unintuitively named "T-126"), the radar was used to take two images of the surface, shown at left and right. Both images are about 200 miles (300 kilometers) in width, from top to bottom. Objects appear bright when they are tilted toward the spacecraft or have rough surfaces; smooth areas appear dark.

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Credit lineCassini's Final Titan Radar Swath. NASA/JPL, 2017-08-11. Public domain. ID: PIA21626.

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