Recalling Voyager
Like the Voyager spacecraft that came before, NASA Cassini spacecraft chronicles wispy terrain on Saturn moon Dione.
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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Saturn and 4 Icy Moons in Natural Color
This approximate natural-color image shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Three satellites (Tethys, Dione, and Rhea) are visible against the darkness of space, and another smaller satellite (Mimas) is visible against Saturn's cloud tops very near the left horizon and just below the rings. The dark shadows o...
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Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
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Dione: Craters and Rings
Saturn moon Dione hangs in front of Saturn rings in this view taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft during the inbound leg of its last close flyby of the icy moon.
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17201
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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Down on Dione
The fractured terrain so distinctive to Dione curves away toward the south in this view, which looks down at the moon northern hemisphere
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA08839
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Saturn and 4 Icy Moons in Natural Color
This approximate natural-color image shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Three satellites (Tethys, Dione, and Rhea) are visible against the darkness of space, and another smaller satellite (Mimas) is visible against Saturn's cloud tops very near the left horizon and just below the rings. The dark shadows o...
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00400
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
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Bright Fractures in the Dark
The wispy fractured terrain on Dione is illuminated here by Saturnshine -- dim reflected light from the planet
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA08174
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Saturn and 4 Icy Moons in Natural Color
This approximate natural-color image shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Three satellites (Tethys, Dione, and Rhea) are visible against the darkness of space, and another smaller satellite (Mimas) is visible against Saturn's cloud tops very near the left horizon and just below the rings. The dark shadows o...
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00400
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
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Dione Mosaic
Many impact craters -- the record of the collision of cosmic debris -- are shown in this mosaic from NASA Voyager 1 of Saturn moon Dione.
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00028
Credit: NASA/JPL
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A Stage for Shadows
Two kinds of dramatic shadows play across the face of Saturn in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft from Dec. 6, 2007. The planet's rings cast dark bands across the cloud tops in the northern hemisphere. Near the pole, an elongated shadow can be seen from Saturn's moon Tethys, which appears as a bri...
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18320
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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