Cassini orbiter snaps Saturn's family portrait
CASSINI NEWS RELEASE
Posted: September 13, 2004
A stately Saturn poses for a portrait with five of its moons in this Cassini spacecraft wide angle camera view.
 Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Download larger image version here |
The image was taken in visible red light at a distance of 7.8 million kilometers (4.8 million miles) from Saturn. The image scale is 464 kilometers (288 miles) per pixel.
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 Office of Space Science, 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.
