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The Night-Side of Dione, in the Saturnshine
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Caption NASA originale:"Cassini whizzed past Dione on Aug. 16, 2006, capturing this slightly motion-blurred view of the moon's fractured and broken landscape in reflected light from Saturn. The motion blur is a result of the long exposure time used to capture dim light from the moon's night side.
The many canyons on Dione rip through more ancient craters. Some medium-sized craters, like the one right of center, have several others overprinted onto them. This view shows southern terrain on the moon's Trailing Hemisphere. The gleaming, sunlit crescent is overexposed at bottom. North is up.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approx. 157.000 Km (about 98.000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft angle of 129°.
Image scale is about 935 mt (roughly 3.067 feet) per pixel".
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