These two montages of images of Saturn's moon Phoebe, taken by Cassini in
June 2004, show the names provisionally assigned to 24 craters on this
Saturnian satellite by the International Astronomical Union.
The craters are named for the Argonauts, explorers of Greek mythology who
sought the golden fleece. Argo was the name of their ship. The largest
crater, approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) across, is named after
the leading Argonaut, Jason. Phoebe is an outer moon of Saturn and is 220
kilometers (136 miles) across.
The two-image montage displays mosaics made of individual, very high
resolution images: 80 meters (260 feet) per pixel on the left; 200 meters
(660 feet) per pixel on the right.
PIA06118 shows eight images of much lower resolution, ranging from 0.5
to 1 kilometer (0.3 to 0.6 mile) per pixel. The images in this montage
show Phoebe as it rotated, and include regions of the moon not visible in
the higher resolution montage.
The images have been slightly rescaled from their original formats and
contrast-enhanced.
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 team is based at
the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.
