PIA02321: Single Still Image
 Target Name:  Moon
 Is a satellite of:  Earth
 Mission:  Cassini-Huygens
 Spacecraft:  Cassini Orbiter
 Instrument:  ISS - Narrow Angle
 Product Size:  1084 x 1025 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  CICLOPS / University of Arizona
 Addition Date:  1999-09-10
 Primary Data Set:  Cassini
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02321.tif (655.5 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02321.jpg (96.1 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This narrow angle image taken by Cassini's camera system of the Moon is one of the best of a sequence of narrow angle frames taken as the spacecraft passed by the Moon on the way to its closest approach with Earth on August 17, 1999. The 80 millisecond exposure was taken through a spectral filter centered at 0.33 microns; the filter bandpass was 85 Angstroms wide. The spatial scale of the image is about 1.4 miles per pixel (about 2.3 kilometers). The imaging data were processed and released by the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ.

Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/Cassini Imaging Team/University of Arizona

Cassini, launched in 1997, is a joint mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency. The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington DC. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Image Addition Date:
1999-09-10