Titan's Hidden Surface: Global Map Shows New Details

Conventional photo surveys might not be able to penetrate Titan's dense haze, but the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on board NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is one of the few instruments that can see through it to probe the surface below. Now, researchers are pulling together 12 years’ worth of VIMS data to create the detailed and global maps shown above. Cassini has flown past Titan roughly once a month since it arrived in Saturn's system in 2004, and it has collected mo