On a high-inclination orbit of Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft gazes down
at the north polar region of Janus.
This view looks toward Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) from a
perspective 72 degrees north of the moon's equator. The image was taken
with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 14, 2008 using a
spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 752
nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 259,000
kilometers (161,000 miles) from Janus and at a Sun-Janus-spacecraft, or
phase, angle of 78 degrees. Image scale is 2 kilometers (5,085 feet) 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.
