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Titan 'T6' Flyby Raw Preview #4

Caption: This unprocessed image was taken during Cassini's close approach to Titan on August 22, 2005.

The image was taken with the narrow angle camera from a distance of approximately 133,800 kilometers (83,100 miles) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 125 degrees. Resolution in the image is about 2 kilometers (5,135 feet) 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 Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

Credit: Cassini Imaging Team & NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Usage Restrictions: Image is in the public domain. Appropriate credit is requested.