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In 2009, the Cassini Spacecraft Made Repeated Orbits Around Titan

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In 2009, the Cassini spacecraft made repeated orbits around Titan, Saturn's largest moon.If this spacecraft orbited at an altitude of 1,000 km above Titan's surface and its high-resolution camera had an angular resolution of 3 arcsec, how large an object could be resolved on Titan's surface?

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The small angle approximation says blured image=206,...

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