Titan

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark Senkyo region on Saturn's moon Titan.

Senkyo is the dark region towards the right. Two other dark regions, Aztlan (to the left, slanting down below the equator) and Fensal (left, north of Aztlan), are also shown here. The bright area below Aztlan is called Tsegihi. See PIA11636 for a closer view of Senkyo and to learn more. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across). North on Titan is up and rotated 9 degrees to the left.

The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 8, 2010 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 938 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 2.1 million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 33 degrees. Image scale is 12 kilometers (7 miles) per pixel.

Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute