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Saturn's moon Janus seen by Cassini spacecraft

author: Nasa/JPL/SSI/Novapix

reference: a-sat05-28000

Image Size 300 DPI: 10 * 5 cm

This shadowy scene is one of the Cassini spacecraft's closest views of Saturn's moon Janus. A bright linear feature runs up the wall of the large crater at bottom center. The view looks toward southern latitudes on Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across). North is toward the top of the image and rotated 58 degrees to the right. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 30, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 33,000 kilometers (21,000 miles) from Janus and at a Sun-Janus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 120 degrees. Image scale is 200 meters (656 feet) per pixel.

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2008 - ASTRONOMY - BLACK AND WHITE - CASSINI - CRATER - IMPACT CRATER - JANUS - SATELLITE - SATURN - SATURN'S MOON -