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Cassini caught the view from a distance of approximately 45,000 miles (73,000 km) from Dione. See more of the final flyby images in this gallery. Saturn's moon floats in front of the giant planet ...
Dione is the fourth-largest moon of Saturn, with a diameter of 698 miles (1,123 kilometers). It is the 15th largest moon in the solar system. Dione orbits around Saturn once every 2.7 Earth-days ...
Talk about a parting shot! NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ends its mission in late 2017, but not before it took one more look at Saturn’s moon Dione -- and sent back some stunning close-ups.
Dione may not be as famous as Titan or Enceladus, but this Saturnian moon is quietly fascinating. Beneath its icy surface lie strange wispy terrains and ancient scars from unknown forces.
NASA has released stunning new images of Saturn’s moon Dione. The images of the icy moon were taken during a June 16 flyby which took NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to within 321 miles of the moon ...
Saturn’s moon Dione has joined the growing list of watery bodies in our solar system. Data from NASA’s Cassini probe indicate that a liquid ocean some 20 miles deep exists far below the icy ...
Officials expect the craft to fly within 295 miles of Dione, performing observations aimed at understanding the moon’s structure and geology. They’re looking for evidence of active geological ...
A NASA spacecraft circling Saturn has discovered a wispy oxygen atmosphere on the ringed planet's icy moon Dione, but you wouldn't want to live there. For one thing, you wouldn't be able to ...
A subsurface ocean lies deep within Saturn's moon Dione, according to new data from the Cassini mission to Saturn. Two other moons of Saturn, Titan and Enceladus, are already known to hide global ...
Now, a group of scientists has announced that Saturn's moon Dione may also have a subsurface ocean. Their results are published in the journal Geophysical Review Letters. Back in 2014, scientists ...
Dione reveals its past via contrasts in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) Saturn's moon Dione has joined the growing list of watery bodies in ...
(Space.com) A NASA spacecraft circling Saturn has discovered a wispy oxygen atmosphere on the ringed planet's icy moon Dione, but you wouldn't want to live there. For one thing, you wouldn't be ...