This view highlights tectonic faults and craters on Dione, an icy world
that has undoubtedly experienced geologic activity since its formation.
This view looks toward the leading hemisphere on Dione (1,126 kilometers,
or 700 miles across). North is up and rotated 20 degrees to the right.
See PIA07691 for a similar false color view.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
Dec. 24, 2005 at a distance of approximately 151,000 kilometers (94,000
miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 99
degrees. Image scale is 896 meters (2,940 feet) 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.
