PIA00028: Dione Mosaic

Target Name: Dione Is a satellite of: Saturn Mission: Voyager Spacecraft: Voyager 1 Instrument: Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle Product Size: 1200 samples x 1180 lines Produced By: JPL Producer ID: P23113 Addition Date: 1996-09-26 Primary Data Set: Voyager EDRs Full-Res TIFF: PIA00028.tif (517.1 kB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA00028.jpg (91.32 kB)

Original Caption Released with Image: Many impact craters -- the record of the collision of cosmic debris -- are shown in this Voyager 1 mosaic of Saturn's moon Dione. The largest crater is less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) in diameter and shows a well-developed central peak. Bright rays represent material ejected from other impact craters. Sinuous valleys probably formed by faults break the moon's icy crust. Images in this mosaic were taken from a range of 162,000 kilometers (100,600 miles) on Nov. 12, 1980. The Voyager Project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Image Credit: NASA/JPL