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RE: Dione

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This image of the southern hemisphere on Dione's anti-Saturn side was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 19, 2007.
The image was obtained at a distance of approximately 240,000 kilometres from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 44 degrees.

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Most of the medium-sized craters visible here have pointed central peaks, owing to the rebound of material following the craters' initial formation.

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This image of the bright fractures on the trailing side of Dione was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 18, 2007, when it was approximately 1 million kilometres away.

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This image of Dione was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on December 19, 2007, when it was approximately 243,088 kilometres away.

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The image was taken using the P0 and UV3 filters.

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This image of Dione was taken in polarised green light by the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007,, when it was approximately 197,000 kilometres away, at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 25 degrees.

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The view is centred on 9 degrees north latitude, 51 degrees west longitude.
North on Dione is up.

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This image of Dione was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe wide-angle camera in visible light on September. 30, 2007, when the spacecraft was approximately 45,000 kilometres away and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 36 degrees.

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This image of Dione was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on October 26, 2007, when it was approximately 883,279 kilometres away.

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The image was taken using the P120 and UV3 filters.

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This image of Dione was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on September 30, 2007, when it was approximately 101,424 kilometres away.

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The image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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This image of Dione was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on September 30, 2007, when it was approximately 201,714 kilometres away.

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The image was taken using the CL1 and IR1 filters.

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This image of bright linea -- geologically fresh-looking, icy canyons -- on Dione, was taken by the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 2, 2007 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centred at 750 nanometers.
The view looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Dione, at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 9 degrees; and when the spacecraft was approximately 1.9 million kilometres from Dione.

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