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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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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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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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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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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-07 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-12-18 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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 2007-12-03 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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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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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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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-13 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-22 Epimetheus Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-16 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-23 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-09 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-17 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-14 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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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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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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Dec. 24, 2005, highlights tectonic faults and craters on Dione, an icy world that has undoubtedly experienced geologic activity since its formation.
PIA07691:
Dione Has Her Faults (False Color)
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This view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft highlights tectonic faults and craters on Saturn's moon Dione, an icy world that has undoubtedly experienced geologic activity since its formation.
PIA07690:
Dione Has Her Faults (Monochrome)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-27 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The leading hemisphere of Dione displays subtle variations in color across its surface in this false color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft takene on Dec. 24, 2005.
PIA07688:
Detail on Dione (False color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-27 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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The leading hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione displays linear grooves and subtle streaks in this image taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Dec. 24, 2005.
PIA07687:
Detail on Dione (Monochrome)
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Saturn's ring moon Prometheus continues its work shaping the delicate F ring as Dione looks on. The image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Dec. 20, 2005.
PIA07681:
Prometheus with Distant Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-20 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Two of Saturn's battered, icy companions, Tethys and Mimas, hover here, above the ringplane. A wide band of visible rings is in between the two moons in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07679:
Moons in Perspective
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This moody portrait of Saturn captured by NASA's Cassini orbiter shows a razor-thin ringplane bisecting the clouds of the bright equatorial region. The rings cast dark, shadowy bands onto the planet's northern latitudes.
PIA07673:
Tilted Giant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-05 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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After journeying a bit more than an hour across the Solar System, bright sunlight reflects off the gleaming icy cliffs in the wispy terrain of Dione and is captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's cameras several light seconds later.
PIA07668:
Light Seconds from Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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With the icy rings between them, Dione and Tethys each show off the prominent features for which they are known. Dione displays wispy fractures that adorn its trailing side. Tethys, closest to NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows its impact basin Odysseus.
PIA07659:
Children of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Dione was created using data taken during NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys.
PIA07776:
Map of Dione -- December 2005
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Cool and icy Dione floats in front of giant Saturn bedecked in a dazzling array of colors in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07771:
Dazzling Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation show two crescent moons dance around Saturn as far-off Dione slips behind its sibling moon Rhea. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view on Dec. 5, 2005.
PIA07770:
Rhea Eclipses Dione (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Dione is partly occulted by Saturn's rings in this nearly edge-on view, taken from less than a tenth of a degree above the ringplane. The side of the rings nearer to NASA's Cassini spacecraft was masked by Saturn's shadow at the time and appears dark.
PIA07658:
Slicing Through Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-09 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's sibling moons, Rhea and Dione, pose for NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this view. Even at this distance, it is easy to see that Dione (below) appears to have been geologically active in the more recent past, compared to Rhea (above).
PIA07649:
Seeing Double
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's cratered, icy moons, Rhea and Dione, come alive with vibrant color that reveals new information about their surface properties. Images in the Dione false-color view were acquired on Aug. 1, 2005 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07769:
Color Variation Across Rhea and Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This montage shows four major icy moons of Saturn that NASA's Cassini spacecraft visited while surveying the Saturnian system during 2005. Largely of ice, they exhibit remarkably different geological histories and varied surface features.
PIA07767:
Season of Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-05 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This fanciful view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the Saturnian moons, Dione and Enceladus, from just beneath the ringplane. Enceladus is on the near side of the rings with respect to Cassini, and Dione is on the far side.
PIA07645:
Dione and Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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In a rare moment, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this enduring portrait of a near-alignment of four of Saturn's restless moons. Timing is critical when trying to capture a view of multiple bodies, like this one.
PIA07644:
When Moons Align
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-24 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione's icy surface is scarred by craters at Carthage Linea in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 11, 2005.
PIA07638:
At Carthage Linea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-23 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft prepared for its rendezvous with Saturn's moon, Dione, on Oct. 11, 2005, capturing the brilliant, cratered iceball in front of its shadow-draped planet.
PIA07637:
On Approach to Dione
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the soft appearance of Dione's wispy terrains belies their true nature. They are, in fact, complex systems of crisp, braided fractures that cover the moon's trailing hemisphere.
PIA07636:
Captivating Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-14 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The moons Dione and Tethys face each other across the gulf of Saturn's rings. Here, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks on the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Tethys below and the anti-Saturn side of Dione above.
PIA07630:
The Face-off
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This excellent grouping of three moons Dione, Tethys and Pandora near the rings provides a sampling of the diversity of worlds that exists in Saturn's realm. This image was taken in visible blue light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07628:
Satellite Trio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-09 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione is about to swing around the edge of the thin F ring in this color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Sept. 20, 2005. More than one thin strand of the F ring's tight spiral can be seen here.
PIA07627:
Wisps in Color
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