This false-color mosaic of Saturn's largest moon Titan, obtained by
Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows what scientists
interpret as an icy volcano (see inset). The mosaic was constructed using
six medium-resolution infrared images, obtained during Cassini's flyby of
the hazy moon on Oct. 26, 2004.
The colors correspond to atmospheric (red) and surface (green and blue)
features that are not visible to the human eye. The inset shows a
high-resolution image taken using a 2.3 micron filter near the point of
Cassini's closest approach to Titan at 1,200 kilometers (746 miles). The
resolution in this inset image is 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) per pixel. The
image scale of the large image is 25 kilometers (16 miles) 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 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 visual and infrared mapping
spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The visual and infrared mapping
spectrometer team homepage is at http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu.
