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PIA10431: Above the Cracks

$This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken from a vantage point 64 degrees above Saturn's moon Dione's equator, looking down onto the bright fractures that cover the moon's trailing side.$

Target Name:	Dione
Is a satellite of:	Saturn
Mission:	Cassini-Huygens
Spacecraft:	Cassini Orbiter
Instrument:	ISS - Narrow Angle
Product Size:	640 x 626 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	Cassini Imaging Team
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA10431.tif (401.3 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA10431.jpg (14.94 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This Cassini spacecraft view, taken from a vantage point 64 degrees above Dione's equator, looks down onto the bright fractures that cover the moon's trailing side. The fractures crisscross a region of terrain that is significantly darker than the rest of the moon's surface.

Dione is 1,123 kilometers (698 miles) across.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 15, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 601,000 kilometers (374,000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 76 degrees. Image scale is 4 kilometers (2 miles) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Image Addition Date:

2008-07-23