This view of Titan's surface highlights northwestern Shangri-la -- a
large, equatorial dark region revealed by radar observations to be covered
in longitudinal dune fields. The bright, circular feature right of center
is a potential impact crater -- few of which have been spotted on Titan
thus far.
North on Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across) is up and rotated
about 15 degrees to the right.
This view was created by combining multiple images taken using a
combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light
centered at 938 and 619 nanometers.
The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
May 13, 2007 at a distance of approximately 125,000 kilometers (77,000
miles) from Titan. Image scale is 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) per pixel. Due
to scattering of light by Titan's hazy atmosphere, the sizes of surface
features that can be resolved are a few times larger than the actual pixel
scale.
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.