Cassini provides virtual flyover of Saturn's moon Titan

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 10:21 in Astronomy & Space

'Fly me to the moon' - to Saturn's moon Titan, that is. New Titan movies and images are providing a bird's-eye view of the moon's Earth-like landscapes. The new flyover maps show, for the first time, the 3-D topography and height of the 1,200-metre (4,000-foot) mountain tops, the north polar lake country, the vast dunes more than 100 metres (300 feet) high that criss-cross the moon, and the thick flows that may have oozed from possible ice volcanoes...

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