This splendid view showcases Dione's tortured complex of bright cliffs. At
lower right is the feature called Cassandra, exhibiting linear rays
extending in multiple directions.
The trailing hemisphere of Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across)
is seen here. North is up.
The image was taken in polarized green light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on July 24, 2006 at a distance of approximately
263,000 kilometers (163,000 miles) from Dione. Image scale is 2 kilometers
(1 mile) 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.