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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-17 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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 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 2007-03-13 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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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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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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 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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Appearing like the swirls of marble, the wispy terrain of Saturn's moon Dione is captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in a dramatic display of light and dark. These wispy features are a system of braided canyons with bright walls.
PIA12553:
Wispy Marble
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-06 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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 2007-08-03 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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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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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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 2007-08-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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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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Dione looms large before the rings of Saturn in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA09721:
Inclined 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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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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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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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 2007-11-15 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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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 2007-12-26 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 2008-01-23 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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 2008-02-05 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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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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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 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 2008-02-21 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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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 2008-03-19 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 2008-04-23 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 2008-04-25 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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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 2008-07-23 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 2008-08-29 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 2008-09-25 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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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 2008-10-28 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The tortured terrain of Saturn's moon Dione is documented in this NASA Cassini spacecraft image. The wispy fractures on the moon's trailing hemisphere can be seen on the left, and cratered terrain on the moon's anti-Saturn side dominates the center.
PIA12529:
Scarred Dione
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From NASA's Cassini spacecraft's perspective, Saturn's moon Dione passes in front of the moon Tethys in this mutual event.
PIA12534:
Passing Tethys
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Wispy terrain winds across the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione in this view taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's Jan. 27, 2010 non-targeted flyby.
PIA12608:
Profiling Dione's Wisps
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Saturn's moon Dione passes in front of the larger moon Titan, as seen from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This image is part of a mutual event sequence in which one moon passes close to or in front of another.
PIA12609:
Before Hazy Titan
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Saturn's moon Dione passes by the moon Tethys in this NASA Cassini spacecraft depiction of a 'mutual event' in which one moon passes close to or in front of another moon.
PIA12624:
Dione Sliding By Tethys
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Saturn's moon Dione dwarfs the moon Telesto in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft image. Dione is the fourth largest of Saturn's moons, and it dominates this view. Tiny Telesto can be seen below and to the left of Dione.
PIA12635:
Don't Forget Telesto
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The surface of Saturn's moon Dione is rendered in crisp detail against a hazy, ghostly Titan. A portion of the 'wispy' terrain of Dione's trailing hemisphere can be seen on the right in this captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12659:
Dione and Ghostly Titan
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft swooped in for a close-up of the cratered, fractured surface of Saturn's moon Dione in this image taken during the spacecraft's Jan. 27, 2010, non-targeted flyby.
PIA12663:
Flying Over Dione
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Saturn's moon Dione, in the foreground of this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, appears darker than the moon Tethys. Tethys appears brighter because it has a higher albedo than Dione, meaning Tethys reflects more sunlight.
PIA12666:
Tethys and Darker Dione
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Crisp details on Dione contrast with the haziness of Titan in image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of a pair of Saturn's moons. Smaller Dione is at the bottom of the image, and that moon's wispy terrain is visible.
PIA12678:
Study in Contrasts
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The smaller moon Mimas upstages the larger moon Dione as the dramatic Herschel Crater is spotlighted on Mimas in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12679:
Upstart Moon
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A thin crescent of cratered terrain is illuminated on Saturn's third largest moon, Dione in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12711:
Crescent Dione
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Looking like half of a figure eight, two of Saturn's moons appear conjoined in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The moon Dione, at the top in the image, is actually closer to the spacecraft, appearing to blend seamlessly with the moon Rhea.
PIA12728:
Conjoined Moons
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Like the Voyager spacecraft that came before, NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicles 'wispy' terrain on Saturn's moon Dione.
PIA12729:
Recalling Voyager
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks across the surface of Saturn's moon Dione and details the 'wispy' terrain first chronicled by Voyager. This fractured terrain covers the trailing hemisphere of Dione.
PIA12740:
Looking Over Dione's Wisps
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this shot of cratered Dione as it flew by the Saturnian moon on Oct. 17, 2010. The large crater at the center of the image is Erulus.
PIA12743:
Eyeing Erulus Crater
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At top of this image, Saturn's moon Dione may appear closer to the spacecraft because it is larger than the moon Enceladus in the lower left. However, Enceladus was actually closer to the spacecraft in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12749:
Dione's Deception
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Saturn's 'wispy' moon Dione lies in front of the cratered surface of the moon Tethys, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Dione is closest to the spacecraft here.
PIA12751:
Wisps Before Craters
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Wispy terrain reflects sunlight brightly in the lower left of this NASA Cassini image of the northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Dione.
PIA12752:
Trailing Wisps
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks past the cratered south polar area of Saturn's moon Rhea to spy the moon Dione and the planet's rings in the distance. Dione's 'wispy' terrain can be seen on the trailing hemisphere of that moon.
PIA12755:
Beyond Southern Rhea
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes three of Saturn's moons set against the darkened night side of the planet. Seen here are Rhea, closest to Cassini, Enceladus to right of Rhea, and Dione, left of Rhea.
PIA12771:
Bright Moons
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Saturn's fourth largest moon, Dione, appears like a solitary ornament suspended above the rings in view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The rings are closer to Cassini in this view, with Dione more distant.
PIA14570:
Dione Decoration
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Saturn's moon Dione coasts along in its orbit appearing in front of its parent planet in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The wispy terrain on the trailing hemisphere of Dione can be seen on the left of the moon here.
PIA14572:
Dione Up Front
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A quartet of Saturn's moons, from tiny to huge, surround and are embedded within the planet's rings in this Cassini composition. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in the background, and the moon's north polar hood is clearly visible.
PIA14579:
In, Around, Beyond Rings
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines the anti-Saturnian side of Dione and shows the cratered surface east of the moon's distinctive wispy terrain which consists of bright cliffs on the moon's trailing hemisphere.
PIA14586:
East of Wisps
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Saturn's fourth-largest moon, Dione, can be seen through the haze of the planet's largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Titan and Dione
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Flying past Saturn's moon Dione, NASA's Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet's rings.
PIA14590:
Closest Dione Flyby
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Saturn's moon Mimas peeks out from behind the night side of the larger moon Dione in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the Dione flyby of Dec. 12, 2011.
PIA14592:
Past Night
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Ejected material appears bright around some of Dione's craters in the image taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's flyby of the moon on March 28, 2012.
PIA14616:
Bright Ejecta
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Saturn's moon Mimas peeps out from behind the larger moon Dione in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14619:
Peeping Mimas
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks at an example of a ray crater on the leading hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione. The ray crater is in the upper-left of the image and ejecta rays show up as brighter material emanating from the crater.
PIA14628:
Dione Ray Crater
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The famed wispy terrain on Saturn's moon Dione is front and center in this recent image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The 'wisps' are fresh fractures on the trailing hemisphere of the moon's icy surface.
PIA14650:
Wispy Terrain on Dione
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In this recent view of Dione, NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks on as the moon's slow rotation brings the terrain from day into night. Dione's rotation period is 66 hours.
PIA14665:
Dusk on Dione
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This image, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows Dione's twin craters Romulus and Remus (just above-right of center), like their semi-divine namesakes, standing together. Also seen is Dido, the larger crater featuring a central peak.
PIA17126:
Dione From a Distance
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Although the crack-like features seen here on Dione's surface appear wispy and faded, they are in reality a series of geologically fresh fractures as seen in this images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA17149:
The Wisps of Dione
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Dione's large crater, Evander, appears here half in shadow, throwing its topography into sharp relief as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA17165:
Evander Half in Shadow
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As seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the surface of Dione is covered in craters, reminding us of the impacts that have shaped all of the worlds of our solar system; the surface also bears linear features that suggest geological activity in the past.
PIA17166:
Dione, Face On
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image when Dione was closer to its camera, making the moon appear much bigger than her larger sister moon, Rhea.
PIA18319:
Dione Dwarfing Rhea Animation Icon
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NASA's Cassini imaging scientists processed this view of Saturn's moon Dione, taken during a close flyby on June 16, 2015. This was Cassini's fourth targeted flyby of Dione.
PIA17195:
Dione's Craggy Surface
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In Greek mythology, Dione was the daughter of Tethys. Scientists believe that they formed out of the same disk around an early Saturn. NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees the two eponymous moons together.
PIA18325:
Mother and Daughter
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Some parts of Dione's surface are covered by linear features, called chasmata, which provide dramatic contrast to the round impact craters that typically cover moons. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18327:
Chasms on Dione
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Saturn's moon Dione hangs in front of Saturn's rings in this view taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the inbound leg of its last close flyby of the icy moon.
PIA17201:
Dione: Craters and Rings
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this parting view showing the rough and icy crescent of Saturn's moon Dione following the spacecraft's last close flyby of the moon on Aug. 17, 2015.
PIA19649:
Departing Dione
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Saturn's moon Dione crosses the face of the giant planet in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Astronomers call this phenomenon a transit.
PIA18330:
Entranced by a Transit
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Although Dione (near) and Enceladus (far) are composed of nearly the same materials, Enceladus has a considerably higher reflectivity than Dione. As a result, it appears brighter against the dark night sky as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18345:
A Brighter Moon
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Saturn's rings are so expansive that they often sneak into pictures of other bodies from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Here, they appear with the planet in a picture taken during a close flyby of Dione.
PIA18344:
Dione Before the Rings
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Dione's beautiful wispy terrain is brightly lit alongside Saturn's elegant rings in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The 'wisps' are relatively young fractures on the trailing hemisphere of Dione's icy surface.
PIA18346:
Wisps Under the Rings
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Dione appears cut in two by Saturn's razor-thin rings, seen nearly edge-on in a view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18358:
Dione Divided
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Cassini captures a crater duo (Italus on ancient trough called Petelia Fossae, and Caieta, atop Helorus Fossa) on Saturn's moon Dione that is superimposed on older, linear features.
PIA18359:
Helorus in Half-light
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Dione reveals its past via contrasts in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The features visible here are a mixture of tectonics (bright, linear features and impact cratering) the round features, which are spread across the entire surface.
PIA20492:
A Moon's Contrasts
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Dione's lit hemisphere faces away from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's camera, yet the moon's darkened surface features are dimly illuminated in this image, due to Saturnshine.
PIA20514:
Coy Dione
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When viewed from a distance with the sun directly behind NASA's Cassini, the larger, brighter craters really stand out on moons like Dione. Among these larger craters, some leave bright ray patterns across the moon.
PIA20521:
Rays of Creusa
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Saturn's moon Dione is captured in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, half in shadow and half in light. Sinuous canyons carve interconnected paths across the moon's icy landscape. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
PIA21349:
Half-lit Dione
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