This is a color map of the composition of a portion of Saturn's moon
Hyperion's surface about 75 kilometers (45 miles) on a side.
In this map, blue shows the maximum exposure of frozen water, red denotes
carbon dioxide ice ("dry ice"), magenta indicates regions of water plus
carbon dioxide, yellow is a mix of carbon dioxide and an unidentified
material. This map was made with data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping
Spectrometer aboard the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Hyperion in
September 2005.
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 was designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer team is
based at the University of Arizona. 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 visual and infrared mapping
spectrometer team home page is at: http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu. The Cassini
imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
