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Dione
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Caption NASA:"Wispy Terrain winds across the Trailing Hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione in this Cassini view taken during the Spacecraft's Jan. 27, 2010 non-targeted Fly-By.
Cassini came within about 45.000 Km (approx. 28.000 miles) of the moon during this Fly-By, but this image was acquired at a distance of approx. 137.000 Km (about 85.000 miles) from Dione.
This view looks toward the anti-Saturn Side and Trailing Hemisphere of Dione. North on Dione is up.
The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 27, 2010. The view was obtained at a Sun-Dione-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 38°.
Image scale is about 819 meters (2687 feet) per pixel".
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