Shown here is a blowup of a region of Titan imaged on July 2, 2004. This
image was taken at a distance of 339,000 kilometers (210,600 miles) and
shows brightness variations on the surface of Titan and a bright field of
clouds near the south pole. The field of clouds is 450 kilometers (280
miles) across and is the about the size of Arizona. Features as small as
10 kilometers (6 miles) can be discerned.
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 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space
Science, 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.