Picture of the Day - Saturn's moon Dione

The tortured terrain of Saturn's moon Dione is documented in this Cassini spacecraft image.

The wispy fractures on the moon's trailing hemisphere can be seen on the left of the image, and cratered terrain on the moon's anti-Saturn side dominates the center of the image. See Wisps on Dione to learn more. North on Dione (1,123 kilometers, or 698 miles across) is up.



The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 23, 2009. The view was acquired [...]

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