Huge color global mosaic of Dione

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This enormous color global view of Dione is composed of a 4-by-4 array of images captured by Cassini on April 7, 2010.

NASA / JPL / SSI / Marc Canale

The source images for this mosaic were from the PDS, so this is an archival quality product.

Copyright holder: Marc Canale

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about April 7, 2010

Comments:

bware: 10/25/2012 11:21 CDT

Thanks for the great image! How come a vast majority of these ejecta blankets appear to be linear between approx. 10 to 4 o'clock. One major ejecta is 9 to 3 o'clock. A few are 11 to 5 o'clock and yes they do all overlap. Thanks.