Lit terrain seen here is on the Saturn-facing side of Iapetus (1,471 kilometers, or 914 miles across). North on Iapetus is up and rotated 8 degrees to the left. Scale on Iapetus was 7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel in the original image. The image was contrast enhanced and magnified by a factor of two to enhance the visibility of surface features. The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 13, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (746,000 miles) from Iapetus and at a Sun-Iapetus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 103 degrees.