This global map of Saturn's moon Dione was created using images taken
during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps
in Cassini's coverage.
An extensive system of bright ice cliffs created by tectonic fractures
adorns the moon's trailing hemisphere.
The map is a simple cylindrical (equidistant) projection and has a scale
of 614 meters (2,014 feet) per pixel at the equator. The mean radius of
Dione used for projection of this map is 562 kilometers (349 miles). This
updated map has been shifted west by 0.6 degrees of longitude, compared to
the previously released Cassini product (PIA08341), in order to conform to
the International Astronomical Union longitude system convention for Dione.
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/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
