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Wispy Dione
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Caption NASA:"The Cassini Spacecraft looks toward the wispy, fractured terrain of the Trailing Hemisphere of the moon Dione.
To learn more about Dione's "Wisps", see also PIA08960.
Lit Terrain seen here is on the Trailing Hemisphere of Dione (about 1123 Km, or approx. 698 miles across). North on Dione is up and rotated 29° to the right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 26, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 1,3 MKM (about 808.000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 35°.
Image scale is roughly 8 Km (about 5 miles) per pixel".
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