The Cassini spacecraft looks down from high latitude over Dione and the
system of wispy fractures that coats the moon's trailing side.
This view looks toward Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across) from
43 degrees above the equator. North is up.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Jan. 14, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance
of approximately 938,000 kilometers (583,000 miles) from Dione and at a
Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 54 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.
