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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-13 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Dione's shadow is elongated as it is cast onto the round shape of Saturn in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The moon is not visible here. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.
PIA12526:
Dione's Distorted Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-21 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Dramatic differences between dark and light embellish image of Saturn, its rings and its moons Dione and Enceladus in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11649:
Brightness Bucks the Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-12-16 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Rhea passes in front of Dione, as seen from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These images are part of a 'mutual event' sequence in which one moon passes close to, or in front of, another.
PIA11646:
Dione Beyond Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-27 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the shadows of two moons as they appear on Saturn, above and below the plane of the planet's rings.
PIA11633:
Shadows Above and Below
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-09 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks to the night side of Saturn and its rings for a view that includes Dione. Tiny Pandora is also present outside the F ring in this image taken on Sept. 22, 2009.
PIA11619:
Dione and the Dark Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-05 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers at the pitted surface of Saturn's small and irregularly-shaped moon Hyperion in this image taken on Sept. 5, 2009.
PIA11617:
Pitted Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-12 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down on the cratered northern leading hemisphere of Saturn's moon, Dione, showing the moon's pockmarked surface.
PIA11599:
Dione's Cratered Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A pair of Saturn's moons, Dione and Tethys, accompany the planet and its rings in this image taken shortly after the planet's August 2009 equinox by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11593:
Saturnscape After Equinox
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-09-11 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Just before Saturn's August 2009 equinox, Dione joined other Saturnian moons in casting shadows on the planet's main rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11578:
Dione's Ring Shadow Premiere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-25 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down on the north pole of Saturnian moon Dione and the fine fractures that cross its trailing hemisphere.
PIA11565:
Above Dione's Fractures
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-29 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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A large impact basin dominates the high southern latitudes of Saturn's moon Dione as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11546:
Dione's Southern Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-09 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the wispy, fractured terrain of the trailing hemisphere of the Saturnian moon Dione.
PIA11532:
Wispy Line
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-09 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Looking down toward the north pole of Saturn's moon Dione, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sights wispy features. These linea cover the trailing hemisphere of the moon.
PIA11510:
Down Dione Way
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-05-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Craters dot Saturnian moon Dione's high northern latitudes, and, farther south, wispy fractures stretch across the moon's equator and mid-latitudes. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft on March 29, 2009.
PIA11487:
Looking Down on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-15 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Only a sliver of Saturnian moon Dione is visible as NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks at the dark side of the moon. Here, only a narrow crescent reflects light forward toward Cassini's camera.
PIA11471:
Dione's Thumbnail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-03 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The orbits of Dione and Titan bring them together in one frame in this distant glimpse from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Jan. 28, 2009.
PIA11463:
Two Moons, One Picture
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-03-25 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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A broad impact basin hints at Dione's split personality in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Dione's leading hemisphere is heavily cratered by impacts while its trailing hemisphere features bright ice cliffs created by tectonic fractures.
PIA11456:
Dione's Pockmarked Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-03-05 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The face of Saturnian moon Dione is almost fully lit as NASA's Cassini spacecraft flies in between this moon and the sun with Dione at low phase. With a few hundred pixels of its digital camera, Cassini details dozens of craters a million kilometers away.
PIA10592:
Details on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-02-12 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This high-phase view of Saturn's Dione shows the great contrast between the highly reflective 'wisps' and the surrounding terrain. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Dec. 26, 2008.
PIA10577:
High Contrast Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-01-20 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views the 'wisps' on the surface of the Saturnian moon, Dione, looking from afar much the way they looked to the Voyager cameras years ago. These linea cover the trailing hemisphere of the moon.
PIA10560:
Dione's Icy Wisps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-01-05 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Dione's dark trailing hemisphere (toward the left) and bright leading hemisphere are both visible in this view centered on the moon's anti-Saturn facing side. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA10549:
Dione's Transition Zone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-28 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Enceladus peeks over the limb of Dione during a partial occultation. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 13, 2008.
PIA10500:
Occulting Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-22 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione's defining feature, the fractures on its trailing side, shine brilliantly in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA10496:
Bright Canyons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-25 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes down at linear tectonic features in Saturn's moon Dione's northern hemisphere. This image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 3, 2008.
PIA10477:
Dione's Fractured North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-29 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Bright, wispy-looking fractures reach across the rugged, icy landscape of Saturn's moon, Dione. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 21, 2008.
PIA10458:
Beyond the Canyons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-08-06 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Presented here is a complete set of cartographic map sheets from a high-resolution atlas of Saturn's moon, Dione, a project of the Cassini Imaging Team created from images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08418:
The Dione Atlas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-23 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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.
PIA10431:
Above the Cracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-06-23 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The bright fractures on Dione's trailing side slice across terrain that is darker than the rest of the surface. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 17, 2008.
PIA10409:
Bright Lines, Dark Canvas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-06-05 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Myriad vortices churn through Saturn's high northern latitudes while Saturn's moon Dione's shadow drifts across the gas giant's face. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on May 7, 2008.
PIA09917:
Raging Planet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-20 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This global map of Saturn's moon Dione was created using images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage.
PIA08413:
Map of Dione - May 2008
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-25 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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As Cassini images often show, the Sun is not the only source of illumination in the Saturn System. The huge, reflective planet also shines upon its moons. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks almost directly down onto the north pole of Dione.
PIA09889:
The Light of Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-23 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down, almost directly at the north pole of Saturn's moon, Dione. The feature just left of the terminator at bottom is Janiculum Dorsa, a long, roughly north-south trending ridge.
PIA09886:
Dione: North Polar View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-19 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This southerly view of Saturn's moon Dione captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows enormous canyons extending from mid-latitudes on the trailing hemisphere, at right, to the moon's south polar region.
PIA09861:
A Stressed Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-28 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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On Jan. 17, 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn's moon, Janus, in the foreground, with Dione in the distance beyond.
PIA09847:
Stepping Stone to Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-21 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings slice across this scene, obscuring the cracked face of Dione. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 17, 2008.
PIA09842:
Hiding Dione
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down from high latitude over Dione and the system of wispy fractures that coats the moon's trailing side.
PIA09838:
Dione Below
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Bright, icy canyons stretch across the surface of Dione. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Dione.
PIA09832:
Cracked-up Dione
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down over high northern latitudes on Saturn's moon, Dione. The view captures terrain stretching on the moon's Saturn-facing side.
PIA09830:
Battered Dione
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft surveys the southern hemisphere on Dione's anti-Saturn side, spying a broad impact basin near bottom. Most of the medium-sized craters visible here have pointed central peaks.
PIA09821:
Rebounded Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-26 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft catches a glimpse of the bright fractures that adorn the trailing side of icy Dione, a moon of Saturn.
PIA09801:
Dione's Fractured Face
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Saturn and Dione regard Enceladus, the object their gravitational tug-of-war in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 8, 2007.
PIA09798:
Key Players
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-11 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's irregularly shaped moon Hyperion is completely covered with large pits from which much of its material has been blasted by impacts, never to return. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 21, 2007.
PIA09790:
Pummeled Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Shadow-draped Saturn rests on its side as two icy moons glide past in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Dione hangs against the planet's bright southern hemisphere. Mimas is a bright speck against the unlit side of the rings, near lower right.
PIA09784:
Planet in Repose
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-30 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Dione floats past, with Saturn's rings beyond. This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across).
PIA09783:
Icy Traveler
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-15 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Canyons slink southward on Dione, while bright-walled craters gleam in the sun. This image was taken in polarized green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007.
PIA09772:
Facing Dione
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Bright, wispy fractures streak across Saturn's moon Dione's trailing side. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007.
PIA09764:
Scratches on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Iapetus Cassini-Huygens
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While on final approach for its Sept. 2007 close encounter with Saturn's moon Iapetus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spun around to take in a sweeping view of the Saturn System.
PIA08387:
The View from Iapetus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-04 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the bright linea -- geologically fresh-looking, icy canyons -- on Saturn's moon, Dione. This view looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Dione.
PIA09742:
Cracked Marble
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-20 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn sits with its attendants in the icy depths of the outer Solar System in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09732:
Kingdom of Saturn
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The two moons pictured here each share their orbits with other bodies; Dione and Epimetheus taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09731:
Moons that Share
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Two icy moons meet on the sky in a 'mutual event' recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The great brightness of Enceladus is rather obvious in comparison to Dione behind it.
PIA09729:
Enceladus and Dione
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Giant craters like the one seen in this view deform the shape of Hyperion, making it the largest irregularly-shaped body in the Saturn system. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09728:
Chiseled Away
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's nearly edge-on rings are caught between two moons, Dione and Pandora taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09727:
Crossing Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This stirring scene captures some of the grandeur of the Saturn system while also allowing a simultaneous glimpse beneath the hazes that cover both Saturn and Titan. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera on Aug. 1, 2007.
PIA09726:
Window Into Worlds
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Dione looms large before the rings of Saturn in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09721:
Inclined Dione
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Dione and Tethys appear on opposite sides of the rings slide past each other in this stately portrait of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09720:
Children of Saturn
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A string of icy moons stretches across the Saturn system in this view from nearly edge-on with the ringplane. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA09011:
Crowded Sky
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Three of Saturn's brood are captured near the rings in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Together they showcase the rich variety of worlds found in the Saturn system.
PIA09004:
A Diverse Family
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Dione floats in the sea of space, bisected by Saturn's edge-on ringplane. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 2, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.5 million kilometers from Dione.
PIA09000:
Skewered Moon
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Bright lines creep across the face of Saturn's moon, Dione. The lines are systems of geologically fresh-looking canyons with bright, icy walls in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Jan. 19, 2007.
PIA08998:
World of Canyons
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Saturn's Dione appears small and far off in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which manages to capture a detailed look at the moon's beautiful bright streaks, or 'linea.' The linea are a system of braided canyons that cut across the moon's face.
PIA08978:
Dione's Good Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-04 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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In this ultraviolet image of Hyperion, produced using data taken NASA's Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph during the September 2005 close flyby, brightness contrasts are due to both topographic and compositional variations across the surface.
PIA09216:
Hyperion's Icy Surface
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This is a color map of the composition of a portion of Saturn's moon Hyperion's surface about 75 kilometers on a side. Map was made with data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Hyperion.
PIA09215:
Hyperion's Kaleidoscope of Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-04 Hyperion Cassini-Huygens
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Hyperion, the eighth largest of Saturn's moons, is covered in craters and landslides. This color map shows the composition of a portion of Hyperion's surface determined with the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09214:
Organics Sprinkled on Hyperion
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies bright fractures in the icy crust of Dione. This view looks toward the northern hemisphere on Dione's anti-Saturn side.
PIA08960:
Wisps on Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-06 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft investigates the craters and deep valleys on Dione during a close approach in April 2007.
PIA08956:
The Crater Gradient
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Giant pits cover the impact-eroded face of Saturn's moon, Hyperion, giving it a spongy appearance. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on April 12, 2007.
PIA08940:
Pitted Hyperion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-11 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes in the crater-strewn surface near Saturn's moon Dione's south pole in this natural color view. Long fractures slice across the surface here, as on other parts of the moon.
PIA08938:
Dione's Southern Face
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Grooves and deep craters adorn terrain at high southern latitudes on Saturn's moon, Dione, in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on March 23, 2007.
PIA08927:
Dione's Decorations
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Chaotically tumbling and seriously eroded by impacts, Hyperion is one of Saturn's more unusual satellites in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft .
PIA08904:
Unusual Hyperion
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Bright icy fractures, or linea, cover the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon, Dione, in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 3, 2007.
PIA08895:
Dionean Linea
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Saturn's Dione's leading hemisphere appears relatively smooth and placid here, compared to the fractured landscape on its trailing hemisphere in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 19, 2007.
PIA08888:
The Quiet Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-01 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Magnificent blue and gold Saturn floats obliquely as one of its gravity-bound companions, Dione, hangs in the distance. The darkened rings seem to nearly touch their shadowy reverse images on the planet below as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08358:
Symmetry in Shadow
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Canyons and mountain peaks snake along the terminator on the crater-covered, icy moon Dione. A line of mountain ridges above center casts shadows toward the east as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08856:
Shadows on Ice
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Saturn's moon Hyperion appears to tumble toward NASA's Cassini in this frame from a movie that shows variations in color across the moon's surface.
PIA08349:
Multicolor Hyperion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-29 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Dione was created using data taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, with gaps in coverage filled in by NASA's Voyager spacecraft data.
PIA08341:
Map of Dione - December 2006
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Saturn's moon Dione floats in the dark sky before NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Images taken from slightly different directions allow construction of stereo views, helpful in interpreting the complex topography of Saturn's moons. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA08338:
Dione Anaglyph
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The fractured terrain so distinctive to Dione curves away toward the south in this view, which looks down at the moon's northern hemisphere. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 22, 2006.
PIA08839:
Down on Dione
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Dione looks lovely half lit in this portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Just visible is a long canyon running southward just left of the terminator in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 29, 2006.
PIA08318:
North on Dione
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Craters of all sizes litter the landscape on Saturn's Dione. The larger craters in this view display prominent central peak in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 12, 2006.
PIA08314:
Holey Dione!
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This color view of Saturnian moon Hyperion shows off the dark pits that cover this strangely shaped moon as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08309:
Hyperion's Pitted Surface
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Bright fractures creep across the surface of icy Dione. This extensive canyon system is centered on a region of terrain that is significantly darker that the rest of the moon in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 27, 2006.
PIA08293:
Dione's Creeping Canyons
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft whizzed past Dione on Aug. 16, 2006, capturing this slightly motion-blurred view of the moon's fractured and broken landscape in reflected light from Saturn.
PIA08266:
Dim Details on Dione
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Soft light from Saturn lifts the veil of night from the moons Dione (lower left) and Rhea (upper right). A scant crescent on each satellite marks the limit of the Sun's direct reach in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 11, 2006.
PIA08261:
Glow of Night
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This splendid view showcases Saturn's moon Dione's tortured complex of bright cliffs. At lower right is the feature called Cassandra, exhibiting linear rays extending in multiple directionsas captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 24, 2006.
PIA08256:
Incredible Cliffs
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Unlike most of the dull grey moons in the Solar System, Hyperion's color is a rosy tan and looks like a spongy potato, as shown is this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08240:
Rosy Tan Moon
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This extreme false-color view of Saturnian moon Hyperion shows color variation across the impact-blasted surface of the tumbling moon in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft .
PIA08236:
Eroded Moon
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks across the unlit ringplane as Mimas glides silently in front of Dione.
PIA08228:
Night Lights
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Saturn's moons Janus and Epimetheus are captured swinging around Saturn's rings and past Dione in this frame from a movie sequence from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07808:
Three Moons Meet Animation Icon
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Three of Saturn's moons swim past in this frame from a movie sequence of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These sequences, called mutual events, are useful for refining scientists' understanding the orbits of the moons.
PIA07802:
Staying with Epimetheus Animation Icon
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Two Saturnian moons meet in the sky. Dione departs after crossing the face of Rhea for several minutes. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 14, 2006.
PIA08203:
Uncovering Rhea
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The dark side of the ringplane glows with scattered light, including the luminous F ring, which shines like a rope of brilliant neon. Below, Dione presents an exquisitely thin crescent in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08201:
Saturn's Night Lights
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Saturn's Dione and Rhea pair up for an occultation, or mutual event, as seen by NASA's Cassini. While the lit portion of each moon is but a crescent, the dar side of Dione has begun to take a bite out of its distant sibling moon.
PIA08183:
Orbs Align
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The wispy fractured terrain on Saturn's moon Dione is illuminated here by 'Saturnshine' -- dim reflected light from the planet. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Mar. 24, 2006.
PIA08174:
Bright Fractures in the Dark
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the Saturnian horizon as Dione and Janus glide past.
PIA08158:
Sidelong at Saturn
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As our robotic emissary to Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is privileged to behold such fantastic sights as this pairing of two moons beyond the rings. The bright, narrow F ring is the outermost ring structure seen here.
PIA08150:
Enceladus Races Onward
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Saturn's moon Dione steps in front of Tethys for a few minutes in an occultation, or mutual event. These events occur frequently for NASA's Cassini spacecraft when it is orbiting close to the ringplane.
PIA08134:
Taking a Bite Out of Tethys
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Saturn's tumbling and irregularly shaped moon Hyperion hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this image taken during a distant encounter in Dec. 2005.
PIA07684:
Rough and Tumble Hyperion (Still)
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The tumbling and irregularly shaped moon Hyperion rotates away from NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this image taken during a distant encounter on Dec. 23, 2005. Hyperion (174 miles across) is covered with closely packed and deeply etched pits.
PIA07683:
Rough and Tumble Hyperion (Movie) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-01 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This close-up of Saturn's moon Dione's icy surface shows deeply shadowed craters near the terminator, as well as a group of roughly linear faults above center. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 24, 2005.
PIA07692:
Dione: Magnified View
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