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Dione: Carthage Linea
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Dione's icy surface is scarred by craters and sliced up by multiple generations of geologically-young bright fractures. Numerous fine, roughly-parallel linear grooves run across the terrain in the upper left corner. Most of the craters seen here have bright walls and dark deposits of material on their floors. As on other Saturnian moons, rockslides on Dione may reveal cleaner ice, while the darker materials accumulate in areas of lower topography and lower slope (e.g. crater floors and the bases of scarps).
The terrain seen here is centered at 15,4° North Latitude, 330,3° West Longitude, in a Region called Carthage Linea. North on Dione is up and rotated 50° to the left.
The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini narrow-angle camera on Oct. 11, 2005, at a distance of approx. 19.600 Km (roughly 12.200 miles) from Dione. The image scale is about 230 mt (760 feet) per pixel".
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