The fractured terrain so distinctive to Dione curves away toward the south
in this view, which looks down at the moon's northern hemisphere.
Lit terrain in this view is on the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Dione
(1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across).
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Nov. 22, 2006 at a distance of approximately
943,000 kilometers (586,000 miles) from Dione and at a
Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 109 degrees. Image scale is 6
kilometers (4 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.