Saturn's moon Dione. Composite Cassini image of the edge of Dione, backlit by the Sun. Dione has a diameter of 1130 kilometres and is the densest of S

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Saturn's moon Dione. Composite Cassini image of the edge of Dione, backlit by the Sun. Dione has a diameter of 1130 kilometres and is the densest of Saturn's moons. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched in 1997 to investigate Saturn, its rings and its moons. This image was taken by Cassini's narrow-angle camera on the 11th October 2005.

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Size: 7600px × 2000px
Photo credit: © NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: 11, 2005, 21st, astronomical, astronomy, backlit, camera, cassini, cassini-huygens, century, dione, edge, exploration, icy, iv, limb, moon, narrow-angle, october, planetary, saturn, saturnian, science, shepherd, solar, space, spacecraft, system