The Cassini spacecraft charts a quartet of dark albedo features on the
moon Titan. From upper left to lower right of the image are Fenzal,
Aztlan, Aaru and Senkyo.
This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Titan (5150 kilometers,
or 3200 miles across). North on Titan is up and rotated 16 degrees to the
right.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
June 9, 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 1.2 million kilometers (746,000 miles) from
Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 26 degrees. Image
scale is 7 kilometers (4 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.