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Japetus
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Caption NASA:"With its light and dark Surface, Japetus appears almost like a "Yin & Yang" symbol or a comma punctuation mark in this Cassini image. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Japetus. North on is up and rotated 41° to the right.
The image was taken in VL with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 12, 2010. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 1,5 MKM (about 932.000 miles) from Japetus and at Phase Angle of 74°. Image scale is roughly 9 Km (about 5,8 miles) per pixel".
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