East of Huygens
About this Image
Saturn's rings lie in the distance as the
Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and its dark region called
Shangri-La, east of the landing site of the Huygens Probe.
The moon's north polar hood is also visible here. See PIA09739 and
PIA08137 to learn more about Titan's atmosphere.
This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Titan (5,150 kilometers,
or 3,200 miles across). North on Titan is up. This view looks toward the
northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
Aug. 9, 2011 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of
near-infrared light centered at 938 nanometers.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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