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Janus (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"The Cassini Spacecraft eyes a prominent crater on the moon Janus.
The South Pole lies on the Terminator at the bottom left of the image. This view is centered on terrain at 16° South Lat., 64° West Long.; this view looks toward the Leading Hemisphere of Janus (about 179 Km, or approx. 111 miles across). North on Janus is up and rotated 31° to the right.
The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 26, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 98.000 Km (such as about 61.000 miles) from Janus and at a Sun-Janus-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 58°.
Image scale is roughly 586 meters (1922 feet) per pixel".
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