Skip to content

December 24, 2011

Titan and Dione

by wordlesstech team

Saturn's moons

Saturn’s third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.

The north polar hood can be seen on Titan appearing as a detached layer at the top of the moon here.

This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Titan (3200 miles, 5150 kilometers across) and Dione (698 miles, 1123 kilometers across). North is up on the moons. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ring plane.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

- See also:

Dear reader we hope you enjoyed wordlessTech!

Don't forget to join our community on Facebook

Subscribe to our RSS Feed or Daily newsletter

Follow us on Twitter and Pinterest

Read more from Astronomy
, , , , , , , ,

Leave a Reply