The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the wispy, fractured terrain of the
trailing hemisphere of the moon Dione.
To learn more about Dione's "wisps," see PIA08960.
Lit terrain seen here is on the trailing hemisphere of Dione (1123
kilometers, or 698 miles across). North on Dione is up and rotated 29
degrees to the right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on May 26, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance
of approximately 1.3 million kilometers (808,000 miles) from Dione and at
a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 35 degrees. Image scale is 8
kilometers (5 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/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.