From high above Titan's northern hemisphere, the Cassini spacecraft takes
an oblique view toward the mid-latitude dark regions that gird the giant
moon.
The view looks toward terrain centered at 45 degrees north latitude on
Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across).
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using a
spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 939
nanometers. The view was acquired on March 10, 2007 at a distance of
approximately 255,000 kilometers (158,000 miles) from Titan. Image scale
is 30 kilometers (19 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 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.
