Surface details on Titan are seen faintly through the murky haze of the
moon's atmosphere.
Lit terrain seen here is on the leading hemisphere of Titan (5,150
kilometers, or 3,200 miles across). North is toward the top of the image.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on July
30, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared
light centered at 939 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of
approximately 370,000 kilometers (230,000 miles) from Titan and at a
Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 87 degrees. Image scale is 22
kilometers (14 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The 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 and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.