From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 09:22:14 PDT
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Subject: ESO News: Most Detailed Titan Surface Map - VT-2004 Programme
Dear subscribers,
New images of unsurpassed clarity have been obtained with the ESO Very
Large Telescope (VLT) of formations on the surface of Titan, the
largest moon in the Saturnian system. They were made by an
international research team during recent commissioning observations
with the "Simultaneous Differential Imager (SDI)", a novel optical
device, just installed at the NACO Adaptive Optics instrument.
The images show a number of surface regions with very different
reflectivity. Of particular interest are several large "dark" areas of
uniformly low reflectivity. One possible interpretation is that they
represent huge surface reservoirs of liquid hydrocarbonates.
Whatever the case, these new observations will be most useful for the
planning of the delivery of the Huygens probe - now approaching the
Saturn system on the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft and scheduled for
descent to Titan's surface in early 2005.
Read the full account and see the impressive images in ESO Press
Release 09/04 at:
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2004/pr-09-04.html Recent additions to the growing VT-2004 website include four
http://www.vt-2004.org/ Kind regards,
The ESO EPR Dept.
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