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A beautiful crescent Dione (with a "Small Companion", maybe...)
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Caption NASA:"A thin crescent of highly Cratered Terrain is illuminated on Saturn's third largest moon, Dione. Lit Terrain seen here is on the Saturn-facing side of Dione. North is up.
The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 17, 2010.
The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 394.000 Km (about 245.000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 151°.
Image scale is roughly 2 Km (about 1,2 miles) per pixel".
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