Middle Northern Latitudes of Japetus

Cassini soars above the many pits and basins in the rolling landscape of Saturn's moon Japetus. This mosaic view looks out onto an area close to the Northern bright/dark boundary, but still within the Dark Region, Cassini Regio.
Near upper left is a large crater with terraced walls, a mostly flat floor and a prominent group of peaks in its center. The sharp features make this likely one of the youngest craters in this area of Japetus. Cassini imaged another similarly flat-floored and relatively fresh crater during its Dec. 2004 Japetus flyby.
The mosaic consists of 3 image footprints across the surface of Japetus. The view is centered on terrain near 43,3° North Latitude, 138° West Longitude. Image scale is approx. 75 meters (246 feet) per pixel.

The clear spectral filter images in this mosaic were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 10, 2007, at a distance of approx. 13.500 Km (about 8.400 miles) from Japetus and at a Sun-Japetus-Spacecraft, or phase, angle of 139°.