Bright fractures adorn the trailing side of Saturn's moon Dione.
This view looks toward the northern hemisphere of Dione (1,123 kilometers,
or 698 miles across). North is toward the top of the image.
The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on June 29, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance
of approximately 810,000 kilometers (503,000 miles) from Dione and at a
Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 60 degrees. Image scale is 5
kilometers (3 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/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
