This shadowy scene is one of the Cassini spacecraft's closest views of
Saturn's moon Janus.
The slopes of some craters here display hints of the darker material
better seen on Epimetheus in PIA09813. A bright linear feature runs up
the wall of the large crater at bottom center.
The view looks toward southern latitudes on Janus (179 kilometers, or 111
miles across). North is toward the top of the image and rotated 58 degrees
to the right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on June 30, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance
of approximately 33,000 kilometers (21,000 miles) from Janus and at a
Sun-Janus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 120 degrees. Image scale is 200
meters (656 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.
