Craters large and small cover the rugged surface of Saturn's moon Janus.
This view looks toward the southern hemisphere of Janus (179 kilometers,
or 111 miles across at its widest point). The moon's south pole is at
center.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May
26, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared
light centered at 930 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of
approximately 186,000 kilometers (115,000 miles) from Janus and at a
Sun-Janus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 83 degrees. Image scale is 1
kilometer (0.6 mile) 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.