Like an ancient mariner charting the coastline of an unexplored
wilderness, Cassini's repeated encounters with Titan are turning a
mysterious world into a more familiar place.
During a Titan flyby on Sept. 7, 2005, the spacecraft's narrow-angle
camera acquired multiple images that were combined to create the mosaic
presented here. Provisional names applied to Titan's features are shown;
an unannotated version of the mosaic is also available (see PIA07755).
The image shows more than half of Titan's Saturn-facing hemisphere at
moderate resolution, including the Fensal-Aztlan region, formerly "the H."
This view is centered at 6.5 degrees north latitude, 20.6 degrees west
longitude, and has a pixel scale of about 2 kilometers (1 mile) per pixel.
It is an orthographic projection, rotated so that north on Titan is up.
This view is composed of 20 images obtained on Sept. 7, 2005, each
processed to enhance surface detail. The central portion of this mosaic
was previously released without labels (see PIA07732).
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.
