This movie is a condensed version of Cassini's 44-hour approach to Titan.
During the movie, the planet rotates about 40 degrees and the spacecraft's
distance to the moon ranges from 1,800,000 to 700,000 kilometers
(1,000,000 to 435,000 miles). At is closest, on Oct. 26, 2004, Cassini
was 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) above the moon. Clouds are seen forming
and evolving near the south pole. The images making up this movie were
captured by Cassini's imaging science subsystem through near-infrared
filters.
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.
