Craterland... (HR - possible natural colors; elab. Lunexit)

This HR view shows a vast range of crater sizes in the dark terrain of the Leading Hemisphere of Saturn's moon Japetus.
Across the scene, a few small bright spots indicate fresh, rayed craters where impactors have punched through the thin blanket of dark material to the cleaner ice beneath.
The slight elevation on the bottom half of the image is part of the giant Equatorial Ridge that spans a wide fraction of Japetus' circumference. The numerous craters on top of the ridge indicate that it is an old surface feature.
The mosaic consists of three image footprints across the surface of Japetus.
The view is centered on terrain near 0,5° North Latitude and 141,6° West Long.

Image scale is approx. 22 meters (72 feet) per pixel. Illumination is from the left.
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. 63.000 Km (such as about 39.000 miles) from Japetus and at a phase angle of about 125°.