The rugged surface of Saturn's irregular tumbling moon Hyperion (270 kilometers, 168 miles across) is revealed in this Cassini image. The image was taken in visible light with the narrow angle camera on February 23, 2005, from a distance of approximately 1.7 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Hyperion and at a Sun-Hyperion-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 42 degrees. Resolution in the original image was 10 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel. The image has been contrast-enhanced and magnified by a factor of three to aid visibility.

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