The Cassini spacecraft looks down on the north pole of Titan, showing
night and day in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's largest moon.
This view is centered on terrain at 49 degrees north latitude, 243 degrees
west longitude. The north pole of Titan is rotated about 23 degrees to the
left and it lies on the terminator above and to the left of the center of
the image.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to
create this natural color view of Titan (5150 kilometers, or 3200 miles
across). The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle
camera on June 6, 2009 at a distance of approximately 194,000 kilometers
(121,000 miles) from Titan. Image scale is 11 kilometers (7 miles) per
pixel.
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.