Half-phase Dione in Approximate True Color by Emily Lakdawalla

From the producer, Emily Lakdawalla:

“Cassini captured this view of Dione on Dec. 23, 2012, from a distance of about 96,300 miles (155,000 kilometers). It is processed to appear approximately true color.”

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The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, 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, D.C. 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, Colo.

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