Cassini whizzed past Saturn’s Moon Dione on Aug. 16, 2006, capturing this slightly motion-blurred view of the moon's fractured and broken landscape in reflected light from Saturn. The motion blur is a result of the long exposure time used to capture dim light from the moon's night side.

The many canyons on Dione, 700 miles across (1,126 kilometers), 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 98,000 miles (157,000 kilometers) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 129 degrees.

-- SPACE.com Staff

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech