From the start, Cassini provided us with incredible views of these icy worlds, including Titan, Enceladus, Mimas, Dione, and others. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, stood out as a primary object of ...

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Saturn's moon, Dione, imaged by NASA's Cassini in Feb 2008. (Credit: NASA) We recently explored Saturn’s walnut-shaped moon, Iapetus, to include its two-toned surface features and equatorial ridge.

A mass of ice and rock measuring 700 miles in diameter, Dione orbits Saturn every 2.7 days at a distance of 234,000 miles, which is roughly the same distance that the Moon orbits around the Earth.

At the time the photo was snapped Dione, the head of the snowman, was 685,000 miles from Cassini while Rhea was 995,000 miles from Cassini. The two moons aren't the same size as they appear in the ...

Saturn’s moon Rhea has features that look somewhat similar, but their distribution is very different than on Dione. The lines on Dione follow a straight line, but those on Rhea are more randomly ...

The scientists have discovered mysterious straight bright stripes on Saturn's moon Dione. According to the research by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Alex Patthoff, the ...

Saturn’s moon Dione is streaked with long bright stripes, and no one knows how they got there. Planetary scientists first noticed the stripes in pictures taken with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ...

But Dione zips around the ringed planet once every 2.7 Earth days, whereas our moon takes 10 times as long to complete one orbit. [Cassini's Greatest Hits: The Best Saturn Photos] ...

The battered face of Saturn's frigid moon Dione gets a close-up in a gorgeous photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Though the image was released Monday (March 12), Cassini took it on July 23, 2012 ...

The battered face of Saturn's frigid moon Dione gets a close-up in a gorgeous photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Though the image was released Monday (March 12), Cassini took it on July 23, 2012, ...

Both Dione and Enceladus are freezing, with temperatures of about minus 200° Celsius at the surface. However, heat generated by friction as Saturn’s gravitational pull could keep the buried sea ...