Iapetus dust of the milky way Visible from the Southern Hemisphere

Visible from the Southern Hemisphere

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January 2000

Iapetus dust of the milky way Visible from the Southern HemisphereCassini captures the first high resolution glimpse of the bright trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Iapetus. The view was acquired with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Sept. 10, 2007, at a distance of about 73,000 kilometers (45,000 miles) from Iapetus. This false color mosaic shows the entire hemisphere of Iapetus (1,468 kilometers, or 912 miles across) visible from Cassini. The central longitude of the trailing hemisphere is 24