Fensal, a magnificent mansion in Norse mythology, is home to Bazaruto
Facula and Sinlap on Saturn's largest moon.
Two dark bands stretch across the moon Titan in this image: Fensal north
of the equator and Aztlan south of the equator.
The eastern part of Fensal features the white circle of Bazaruto Facula.
This bright 215-kilometer (134-mile) wide feature is visible just below
the center of the image. Inside it is Sinlap, a dark 80-kilometer
(50-mile) wide crater.
This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Titan (5150 kilometers,
or 3200 miles across). North on Titan is up and rotated 24 degrees to the
right.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
Jan. 2, 2009 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of
near-infrared light centered at 938 nanometers. The view was obtained at a
distance of approximately 1.7 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from
Titan, and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 54 degrees. Image
scale is 10 kilometers (6 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.