Dione (raw image)

This raw image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken on June 16, 2015 and received on Earth June 17, 2015. The image was taken using the narrow-angle camera.

This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System in 2016.

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The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov or http://www.nasa.gov/cassini . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org .

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute