The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the bright linea -- geologically
fresh-looking, icy canyons -- on Dione.
This view looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Dione (1126 kilometers,
or 700 miles across). North is up.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Sept. 2, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance
of approximately 1.9 million kilometers (1.2 million miles) from Dione and
at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 9 degrees. Image scale is 11
kilometers (7 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm.
The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.