This clear-filter view of Saturn's moon Titan reveals a region of cloud
activity at high southern latitudes. Titan is 5,150 kilometers (3,200
miles) across.
Cassini observations have generally been consistent with Earth-based
observations that indicate the south-polar fields of clouds that had been
observed frequently in 2004 haven't been present in 2005.
This image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Aug. 31, 2005, at a distance of approximately 3.3
million kilometers (2 million miles) from Titan and at a
Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 70 degrees. The image scale is
20 kilometers (12 miles) per pixel. North on Titan is up and rotated
about 20 degrees to the left. The view has been mildly enhanced to make
the cloud feature more easily visible.
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.
For additional images visit the Cassini imaging team homepage http://ciclops.org.
