For the last 15 years, since October 15th, 1997 Cassini Mission has been exploring Saturn, its Moons and Rings. Astonishing images were captured by Cassini and much of the Big unknown planet is nowadays widely covered with thousands of infra red pictures which opened our knowledge and clarified many of Saturn mysteries. Scientists could see frozen lakes, mountains, small and huge moons, furious storms and rings that seemed to float on Saturn's gas atmosphere.
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| Cassini spacecraft views SATURN rings and TITAN its biggest Moon |
TITAN the biggest Saturn's moon was extensively explored and incredible shoots were captured, like this one where the BIG MOON relays in the center of the image, with its 5,150 km, across.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on 15 Jan. 2011 using a combination of polarized and spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light.
The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 844,000 km from Titan.
Image scale is 50 km per pixel.
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