Surface details on Titan are just visible in this Cassini view acquired
through clear spectral filters, which permit wavelengths of light from the
infrared through the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum to reach the
camera's detector. Also of note are bands in the atmosphere over Titan's
extreme northern latitudes.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
Feb. 26, 2005, at a distance of approximately 2.4 million kilometers (1.5
million miles) from Titan. The image scale is 14 kilometers (9 miles) per
pixel. Contrast was enhanced in the image to aid visibility.
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 team is based at the Space Science
Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.
