The Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and the large, equatorial bright
region at center called Adiri. The Huygens probe landing site is in view
here, east of Adiri.
North on Titan (5,150 kilometers, 3,200 miles across) is up and rotated 21
degrees to the left.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov.
19, 2007 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared
light centered at 939 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of
approximately 115,000 kilometers (71,000 miles) from Titan. Image scale is
7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel. Due to scattering of light by Titan's
hazy atmosphere, the sizes of surface features that can be resolved are a
few times larger than the actual pixel scale.
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/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
