What's that past Dione? When making its closest pass yet of
Saturn's moon late last year, the robotic Cassini spacecraft
snapped this far-ranging picture featuring Dione, Saturn's
rings, and the two small moons The above image captures part of
the heavily cratered snow-white surface of the 1,100 kilometer
wide Dione, the thinness of Saturn's rings, and the of the
smaller moon Epimetheus. The image was taken when Cassini was
only about 100,000 kilometers from the large icy moon. Future
events in Cassini's continuing exploration of Saturn and its
moons include tomorrow's flyby of Titan and imaging the distant
Earth passing behind Saturn in June.