Emily Lakdawalla • Oct 12, 2005
Animation from Cassini's approach to Dione
The images from Cassini's Dione encounter yesterday have started coming back, and there is a really cool set of 16 pictures of Dione and Rhea. Cassini's cameras are kept locked on Dione, so if you stack them together and animate them like a flip book, Rhea appears to zip behind Dione. Pretty cool! There are three frames missing toward the end, which is why it appears to stop and start; when those images are returned I'll add them in to the animation.
![Partial eclipse of Rhea by Dione](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/20130828_dione_rhea_eclipse.gif)
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