Titan Data Atlas

Titan data, made findable

Saturn's largest moon, mapped and ready to open.

A plain-language guide to the seven public data products from the Hayes Research Group at Cornell, most of them made from Cassini's radar views of Titan. Find the right one, see what is inside, and follow the steps to open it in ArcGIS, QGIS or JMARS.

Browse the products Open the map
Titan's global topography in false color, low areas dark blue and high areas pale
Titan global topography (Corlies et al. 2017), 4 pixels per degree, from Titan SARtopo Derived Digital Topography Models. Credit: Paul Corlies (Corlies et al., 2017). Converted for this site. Explore it on the map.
7data products, each with its DOI and credit
8plain-language tasks that lead to them
1sample converted to GIS formats
3GIS tools with step-by-step recipes

Three ways in

Where are you starting from?

I'm a studentStart from layers that are already maps, and tools that cost nothing.I'm a researcherDOIs, the raw archive, file formats and citations, gathered in one place.I'm just curiousWhat each product shows, in plain words, and a map you can explore without downloading anything.

The map of the data

Start from what you want to do

Tasks on the left, the products that answer them on the right. Point at a task or a product, or move to it with the Tab key, to trace the lines.

See what Titan's surface looks likeSee what Titan's surface looks likeMap rivers and channelsMap rivers and channelsMeasure heights and slopesMeasure heights and slopesStudy the polar lakes and seasStudy the polar lakes and seasStart from the original radar swathsStart from the original radar swathsMake a map of a region for a class projectMake a map of a region for a class projectCheck which radar passes cover a placeCheck which radar passes cover a placeCompare surface change on a cometCompare surface change on a cometTitan SAR DataTitan SAR DataTitan Polar MappingTitan Polar MappingTopography of TitanTopography of TitanTitan SARtopo Derived Digital Topography ModelsTitan SARtopo Derived Digital Topography ModelsTitan Channel MapTitan Channel MapTitan Equatorial SAR MosaicsTitan Equatorial SAR MosaicsComet 67P Sediment Transport MapComet 67P Sediment Transport Map
Read the diagram as a list

Explore Titan in your browser

Titan's global topography on a map in Titan's own longitude and latitude. Move the cursor to read coordinates. Nothing to install.

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Ask from your AI tool

Connect Claude or any MCP client and ask which product fits your question, what files it has right now, and how to open it.

Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http titan https://titan.swapniltamse.com/mcp

Other clients and the full tool list

Product facts come from the Hayes Research Group data products page and the archive listings on data.astro.cornell.edu, checked on 2026-10-07. The plain-language summaries are mine. Each product page links to the original record.