Within the windswept wastes of Titan’s equatorial dune desert lies the 1,700-kilometer (1,050-mile) wide bright region called Adiri, seen here at center. The intrepid Huygens probe landed off the northeastern edge of Adiri in January 2005. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Titan (5,150 kilometers, 3,200 miles across)--the side that always faces away from Saturn as the moon orbits. North in Titan is up and rotated 26 degrees to the right. The image was taken using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 939 nanometers. The view was acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on June 14, 2007 at a distance of approximately 157,000 kilometers (98,000 miles) from Titan. Image scale is 9 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel.

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