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Titan's First
Close-Up
October 26, 2004
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This image is one of the closest ever
taken of Saturn's hazy moon Titan. It was captured
by Cassini's imaging science subsystem on Oct. 26,
2004, as the spacecraft flew by Titan. At its
closest, Cassini was 1,200 kilometers (745 miles)
above the moon, 300 times closer than during its
first flyby on July 3, 2004.
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 Cassini orbiter
and its two onboard cameras were designed,
developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team
is based at the Space Science Institute, 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/
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Image
Credit:
NASA/JPL/Space Science
Institute
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