Canyons slink southward on Dione, while bright-walled craters gleam in the
sun. The Cassini spacecraft imaged this same region from a more southerly
viewpoint during an approach earlier this year (see PIA08956).
This view is centered on 9 degrees north latitude, 51 degrees west
longitude. North on Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across) is up.
The image was taken in polarized green light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance
of approximately 197,000 kilometers (122,000 miles) from Dione and at a
Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 25 degrees. Image scale is 1
kilometer (0.6 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.