Swinging by Saturn's small moon Epimetheus, Cassini snapped this shot during the spacecraft's April 7, 2010, flyby.
See PIA09813 and PIA06226 for even closer views from earlier flybys. Lit terrain seen here is on the Saturn-facing side of Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles across). North on Epimetheus is up and rotated 27 degrees to the left.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 87,000 kilometers (54,000 miles) from Epimetheus and at a Sun-Epimetheus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 69 degrees. Image scale is 519 meters (1,703 feet) per pixel.
Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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