The Belet Region of Titan

The Cassini spacecraft looks at Belet, a dark region on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

This large region on the moon has a low albedo, meaning it diffusely reflects little light. See PIA11149 to learn more. This view looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across). North on Titan is up and rotated 2 degrees to the right.

The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 15, 2010 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 938 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (746,000 miles) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 51 degrees. Image scale is 7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel.

Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute