This global map of Saturn's moon Iapetus was created using images taken
during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps
in Cassini's coverage.
Iapetus is the moon of Saturn which, curiously, has one bright hemisphere
and one dark.
The map is an equidistant (simple cylindrical) projection and has a scale
of 803 meters (0.5 miles) per pixel at the equator. Some territory seen in
this map was imaged by Cassini using reflected light from Saturn. The mean
radius of Iapetus used for projection of this map is 736 kilometers (457
miles). The resolution of the map is 16 pixels per degree. This mosaic map
is an update to the version released in January 2008 (see PIA08406).
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/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
