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Images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its approach to Saturn make up this animated view of Titan. Both Titan's dark and light sides are visible as it turns, showing brightness variations on the moon’s surface and a bright field of clouds near its south pole. The gray area toward the north pole of the moon denotes missing data.

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.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page, http://ciclops.org .

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute



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