In the top right of this Cassini image, the southern end of
Titan's huge lake of liquid hydrocarbons called Kraken Mare is
visible near the moon's north pole. See PIA11146 to learn more
about Titan's lake districts and to see a map. Near the moon's
equator are the albedo features Senkyo on the right and Aztlan
on the left. 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 31 degrees to the right. The image was taken
with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 12, 2009
using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-
infrared light centered at 939 nanometers. The view was acquired
at a distance of approximately 252,000 kilometers (157,000
miles) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle
of 11 degrees. Image scale is 15 kilometers (9 miles) 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,