Saturn Moon Collage

Hyperion, Dione, Epimetheus and Iapetus are among Saturn's 79+ moons. The voyage of the Cassini spacecraft has yielded an abundance of information about Saturn and its moons.

This grayscale image is credited to NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

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Cassini-Huygens mission.

ESA/Cassini-Huygens, image source.

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Dione

Dione is among Saturn's 62+ moons. The voyage of the Cassini spacecraft has yielded an abundance of information about Saturn and its moons.

This grayscale image Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

From the original image caption: "This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's icy moon Dione, with giant Saturn and its rings in the background, just prior to the mission's final close approach to the moon on August 17, 2015. At lower right is the large, multi-ringed impact basin named Evander, which is about 220 miles (350 kilometers) wide. The canyons of Padua Chasma, features that form part of Dione's bright, wispy terrain, reach into the darkness at left. Imaging scientists combined nine visible light (clear spectral filter) images to create this mosaic view: eight from the narrow-angle camera and one from the wide-angle camera, which fills in an area at lower left. The scene is an orthographic projection centered on terrain at 0.2 degrees north latitude, 179 degrees west longitude on Dione. An orthographic view is most like the view seen by a distant observer looking through a telescope. North on Dione is up. The view was acquired at distances ranging from approximately 106,000 miles (170,000 kilometers) to 39,000 miles (63,000 kilometers) from Dione and at a sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 35 degrees."

References:
Cassini-Huygens mission.

ESA/Cassini-Huygens, image source.

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