Saturn's two-faced moon Iapetus tilts and rotates in this mesmerizing movie sequence of images acquired during the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft's close encounter on 12 November 2005.
Images taken using ultraviolet, green and infrared spectral filters with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera were combined to create false-colour frames for this movie. The colour seen here is similar to that produced in (red, green and blue) natural-colour views.
Resolution in the original images taken at closest approach to Iapetus was about 3 kilometres per pixel. The colour frames were resized to create the movie.