Bright lines creep across the face of Dione. The lines are systems of
geologically fresh-looking canyons with bright, icy walls.
Lit terrain seen here is on the Saturn-facing side of Dione (1,126
kilometers, or 700 miles across). North on Dione is up and rotated 18
degrees to the right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on June 18, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.6
million kilometers (1.6 million miles) from Dione. Image scale is about 15
kilometers (9 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.