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NASA Cassini-Huygens Collection
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NASA Cassini-Huygens Collection
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Details in the Dark
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Details in the Dark
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Details in the Dark
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Details in the Dark
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This view shows one of the huge impact basins on the terminator of Saturn's moon Iapetus and a smaller, but still fairly large, crater near the southern bright-dark boundary. Just visible near the western limb, in the dark territory of Cassini Regio, is the moon's mysterious equatorial ridge. The ridge was discovered in Cassini images (see Encountering Iapetus) and reaches 20 kilometers (12 miles) high in places. This view shows principally the leading hemisphere on Iapetus. North is up and tilted 15 degrees to the right. Iapetus is 1,468 kilometers (912 miles) across. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 19, 2005, through spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.4 million kilometers (880,000 miles) from Iapetus and at a Sun-Iapetus-spacecra ft, or phase, angle of 70 degrees. Resolution in the original image was 8 kilometers (5 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 team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.n…. For additional images visit the Cassini imaging team homepage http://ciclops.org. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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This view shows one of the huge impact basins on the terminator of Saturn's moon Iapetus and a smaller, but still fairly large, crater near the southern bright-dark boundary. Just visible near the western limb, in the dark territory of Cassini Regio, is the moon's mysterious equatorial ridge. The ridge was discovered in Cassini images (see Encountering Iapetus) and reaches 20 kilometers (12 miles) high in places. This view shows principally the leading hemisphere on Iapetus. North is up and tilted 15 degrees to the right. Iapetus is 1,468 kilometers (912 miles) across. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 19, 2005, through spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.4 million kilometers (880,000 miles) from Iapetus and at a Sun-Iapetus-spacecra ft, or phase, angle of 70 degrees. Resolution in the original image was 8 kilometers (5 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 team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.n…. For additional images visit the Cassini imaging team homepage http://ciclops.org. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Full Description
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May 10, 2005
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Iapetus
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Iapetus
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Saturn
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Saturn
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Cassini
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Cassini
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Cassini-Huygens
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Cassini-Huygens
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Huygens Probe
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Huygens Probe
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Moon
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Moon
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Cassini Orbiter
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Cassini Orbiter
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Crater
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Crater
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Sun
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Sun
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Iapetus
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Iapetus
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Saturn
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Saturn
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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California
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California
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Washington
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Washington
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D.C.
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May 10, 2005
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May 10, 2005
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March 19, 2005
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March 19, 2005
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2005
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2005
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SPD-SATRN-1524
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