Grooves and deep craters adorn terrain at high southern latitudes on
Dione. The Cassini spacecraft revealed the fractured landscape of this
moon's icy crescent in unparalleled detail in 2005 (see PIA07745).
This view looks down toward terrain centered at 65 degrees south latitude
on Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across).
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on March 23, 2007 at a distance of approximately
571,000 kilometers (355,000 miles) from Dione and at a
Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 92 degrees. Image scale is 3
kilometers (2 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/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
