Titan Radar Swath (T-57 Flyby - June 22, 2009)

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Caption:

This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on June 22, 2009. North-South Swath across the southern anti-Saturn hemisphere (Northern Ontario Lacus, Perkunas Virgae). The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 955 kilometers (593 miles) during the closest approach.

The image has been processed with a resolution of 128 pixels/deg.

Background Info:

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. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini .

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