The Cassini spacecraft captures a far-off view of Saturn's irregularly
shaped, icy moon Janus.
North on Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across at its widest point)
is toward the top of the image.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on June 10, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance
of approximately 886,000 kilometers (551,000 miles) from Janus and at a
Sun-Janus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 33 degrees. Image scale is 5
kilometers (3 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.
