A mosaic of two images of Saturn's moon Phoebe taken shortly after
Cassini's flyby on June 11, 2004, gives a close-up view of a region near
its South Pole. The view, taken about 13,000 kilometers (8,000 miles)
from Phoebe, is about 120 kilometers (74 miles) across and shows a region
battered by craters. Brighter material, likely to be ice, is exposed by
small craters and streams down the slopes of large craters. The skyline
is a combination of Phoebe's shape and the formation of impact
craters. Walls of some of the larger craters are more than 4 kilometers
(2.5 miles) high. The image scale is 80 meters (264 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 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.
