This color view of Hyperion shows off the dark pits that cover this
strangely shaped moon.
At 280 kilometers (174 miles) across, Hyperion is the largest of
Saturn's irregularly-shaped moons. See PIA08240 for another color view.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to
create this natural color view. The images were obtained by the Cassini
spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 10, 2006 at a distance of
approximately 998,000 kilometers (620,000 miles) from Hyperion. Image
scale is 6 kilometers (4 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/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.