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The "wrinkled Face" of Dione
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Caption NASA:"Bright fractures creep across the surface of icy Dione. This extensive canyon system is centered on a region of terrain that is significantly darker than the rest of the moon. Part of the darker terrain is visible at right.
Lit terrain in this view is on the Saturn-Facing Hemisphere of Dione.
North is up and rotated 8° to the left.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 25, 2006 at a distance of approx. 677.000 Km (such as 421.000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 62°.
Image scale is roughly 4 Km (about 2,5 miles) per pixel".
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