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This NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar image was acquired as a part of the Titan fly-by observations taken on 7 September 2005, from a distance of about 2000 kilometres. The area is located at about 55 degrees South, 7.5 degrees West longitude and is over 300 kilometres across.
Fluids have flowed and cut these deeply incised channels into the icy surface of Titan. The channels are roughly 1 kilometre across and perhaps 200 metres deep; some can be traced back as far as 200 kilometres. Many of them have angular segments suggesting they may follow faults in Titan's crust.
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