Cassini’s Farewell Look at Dione

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The mottled surface of Dione, with the rings of of Saturn in the background during the June 16th 2015 flyby. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft paid a visit to Saturn’s moon Dione this week, one final time.

Cassini passed just 474 kilometers (295 miles) above the surface of the icy moon on Monday, August 17^th at 2:33 PM EDT/18:33 UT. The flyby is the fifth and final pass of Cassini near Dione (pronounced dahy-OH-nee). The closest passage was 100 kilometers (60 miles) in December 2011.  This final flyby of Dione will give researchers a chance to probe the tiny world’s internal structure, as Cassini flies through the gravitational influence of the moon. Cassini has only gathered gravity science data on a handful of Saturn’s 62 known moons.(…)
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