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Dim details on Dione CASSINI PHOTO RELEASE Posted: September 30, 2006
The many canyons on Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across) rip through more ancient craters. Some medium-sized craters, like the one right of center, have several others overprinted onto them. This view shows southern terrain on the moon's trailing hemisphere. The gleaming, sunlit crescent is overexposed at bottom. North is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 157,000 kilometers (98,000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 129 degrees. Image scale is 935 meters (3,067 feet) per pixel. 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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The Russian Soyuz TMA-9 space capsule carrying the Expedition 14 resident crew and space tourist Anousheh Ansari safely docks to the International Space Station's Zvezda service module.
This extended duration movie follows the Soyuz rocket from the final countdown through arrival in orbit with the Expedition 14 crew. The video shows the three-stage rocket's ascent from Baikonur Cosmodrome and includes views of Mike Lopez-Alegria, Mikhail Tyurin and Anousheh Ansari from cameras inside the capsule.
The voyage of Expedition 14 aboard the International Space Station is expected to see major construction activities for the outpost. Learn more about the mission in this narrated mission preview movie.