CICLOPS: Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for OPerationS
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Art and Science
PIA 06607
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   As artful as it is informative, this captivating portrait captures wispy Dione (1,123 kilometers, 698 miles across) over the shoulder of smoggy Titan (5,150 kilometers, 3,200 miles across) in a single inspiring scene.

The image was taken in visible green light with the narrow angle camera on February 18, 2005, from a distance of approximately 1.3 million kilometers (808,000 miles) from Dione and 2.1 million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from Titan. The image scale is 8 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel on Dione, and 13 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel on Titan.

[Caption updated on October 4, 2005.]

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 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page, http://ciclops.org.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Released: March 17, 2005 (PIA 06607)
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