This image depicts Saturn's moon Titan as seen by the visual and infrared
mapping spectrometer after closest approach on a July 22, 2006, flyby.
The image was generated using the 5 micron wavelength for red, the 2
micron wavelength for green and the 1.2 micron wavelength for blue. The
clouds, circled in the annotated version, are of the type seen previously
and reported in the journal Science. The image shows the clouds spreading
out along the 40-degree-south latitude line.
This image was taken at 160,000 kilometers (99,000 miles) from Titan.
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 was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Visual
and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer team is based at the University of
Arizona where this image was produced.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm The visual and infrared mapping
spectrometer team homepage is at http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu.
