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Saturn's moon Dione appears cut in two by Saturn's razor-thin rings, seen nearly edge-on in a view from our Cassini spacecraft. The bright streaks of Dione's wispy terrain are seen near the moon's limb at right. The medium-sized crater Turnus (63 miles, 101 kilometers, wide) is visible along Dione's terminator. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.4 million miles (2.3 million kilometers) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 115 degrees. Image scale is 8.6 miles (13.8 kilometers) per pixel. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute #nasa #cassini #saturn #dione #solarsystem #astronomy #nasabeyond #science

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