Dione's Bright Streaks

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute , Posted on: Thursday, 14 August 2008, 06:58 CDT Download full size image

Bright fractures adorn the trailing side of Saturn's moon Dione.

This view looks toward the northern hemisphere of Dione (1,123 kilometers, or 698 miles across). North is toward the top of the image.

The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 29, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 810,000 kilometers (503,000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 60 degrees. Image scale is 5 kilometers (3 miles) per pixel.

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