Dione's "Wisps"

The Cassini spacecraft looks across the surface of Saturn's moon Dione and details the "wispy" terrain first chronicled by Voyager.

This fractured terrain covers the trailing hemisphere of Dione (1,123 kilometers, or 698 miles across). See PIA10560 to learn more. This view is centered on terrain at 53 degrees north latitude, 209 degrees west longitude.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on October 17, 2010. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 61,000 kilometers (38,000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 32 degrees. Image scale is 363 meters (1,190 feet) per pixel.

Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute