# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BB4BuSeIaKs
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736913-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2016-02-17T05:20:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

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

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