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Water Ice and Methane Springs

Target Name:  Titan
Spacecraft:  Huygens Probe
Instrument:  Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer
Produced by:  ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Copyright: NASA Copyright Free Policy
Cross Reference:  PIA07238
Date Taken:  26 October 2004

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A single Huygens Descent Imager/ Spectral Radiometer (DISR) instrument image shows two new features on the surface of Titan. A bright linear feature suggests an area where water ice may have been extruded onto the surface. Also visible are short, stubby dark channels that may have been formed by 'springs' of liquid methane rather than methane 'rain'.

The Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer is one of two NASA instruments on the probe.

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