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The Bright Canyons of Dione
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Caption NASA:"Dione's defining feature, the fractures on its Trailing Side, shine brilliantly in this Cassini Spacecraft view.
The view was acquired from a position 33° South of the moon's Equator. Lit terrain seen here is on the Trailing Side of Dione (approx. 1123 Km, or about 698 miles across). North is up and rotated 8° to the right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 11, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 833,000 kilometers (517,000 miles) from Dione and at a Phase Angle of 67°. Image scale is about 5 Km (a little more than 3 miles) per pixel.
The image was taken with the Cassini Spacecraft wide-angle camera on Aug. 26, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 752 nanometers.
The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 397.000 Km (about 246.000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 20 Km (about 13 miles) per pixel".
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