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Related: About this forumAmazing views of Saturn’s icy moon Dione
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This view from NASAs Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturns icy moon Dione, with giant Saturn and its rings in the background, just prior to the missions final close approach to the moon on August 17, 2015. At lower right is the large, multi-ringed impact basin named Evander, which is about 220 miles (350 kilometers) wide. The canyons of Padua Chasma, features that form part of Diones bright, wispy terrain, reach into the darkness at left. Image credit: NASA
NASAs Cassini spacecraft passed 295 miles (474 kilometers) above the surface of Saturns moon Dione on August 17, 2015 in the missions last close approach. This was the fifth close encounter with Dione during Cassinis long tour at Saturn. The missions closest-ever flyby of Dione was in December 2011, at a distance of 60 miles (100 kilometers).
A pockmarked, icy landscape looms beneath the spacecraft in these new images of the small, icy world taken during the flyby.
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longship
(40,416 posts)Its mission will end in 2017 with it deliberately crashing into Saturn. They don't want it messing up any of the moons, especially Enceladus or Titan.
dieter
(94 posts)Too bad we don't do that here on Earth.
longship
(40,416 posts)And the moon. Remember NASA to bomb the Moon thread?
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)It's great! Woohoo!