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Iapetus

Iapetus
 
 

Iapetus is 1,436 kilometers (892 miles) across. The view is centered on the moon's equator and on roughly 90 degrees west longitude -- a location that always faces the direction of Iapetus's orbital motion around Saturn and has been oriented so that the north pole is toward the top of the picture.


Cassini acquired the images in this mosaic with its narrow angle camera on Dec. 31, 2004, at a distance of about 172,400 kilometers (107,124 miles) from Iapetus and at a Sun-Iapetus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 50 degrees. The image scale is 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) per pixel. The image has been contrast enhanced to aid visibility of surface features.


Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
  Image 49 of 65
  20070717220730857
 Tue Jul 17, 2007 at 19:07 UTC
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