Cutting Dione...

Dione is partly occulted by Saturn's Rings in this nearly edge-on view, taken from less than 1/10th of 1° above the Ring-Plane. The side of the Rings nearer to the Cassini spacecraft was masked by Saturn's shadow at the time and appears dark.
Bright, wispy fractures on Dione's trailing Hemisphere curl around the horizon. Sunlit terrain seen on Dione is on the moon's Saturn-facing Hemisphere.
North is up.

The image was taken in infrared light (centered at 752 nanometers) with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 3, 2005 at a distance of approximately 2.5 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 109 degrees. Resolution in the original image was 15 kilometers (9 miles) per pixel.