Cassini surveys a bright landscape coated by dark material on Iapetus.
This image shows terrain in the transition region between the moon's dark
leading hemisphere and its bright trailing hemisphere. The view was
acquired during Cassini's only close flyby of the two-toned Saturn moon.
The image was taken on Sept. 10, 2007, with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 5,260 kilometers (3,270
miles) from Iapetus. Image scale is 32 meters (105 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 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.
