The video clip, showing a computer-generated flyover of the area based on the topographic and image data in black and white, is shown in Figure 1. The vertical exaggeration of this movie is 20 times. The movie starts with an overhead view, with north at the top. These views show rugged mountainous areas in the lower left and lower right, and blobby (lobate) flows in the top (northern) part of the region. The point of view then flies down to look across the terrain from the west, with the mountains in the "forked" end of the map in the foreground. Then it rotates around to the north side and finally zooms in partway toward the center of the map. Rugged areas are generally high, and the narrow bright channels flow out of valleys in these mountains.
In the flows area, some of the bright areas are the tops of flows and some are the lower surface that the flows sit on. In between, the edges of the flows stand out because they appear somewhat darker than either the flow tops or the underlying surface. This radar-dark appearance probably means that the flow edges are relatively smooth.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries.
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