Bright lines creep across the face of Dione. The linea are systems of geologically fresh looking canyons with bright icy walls. Lit terrain seen here is on the Saturn-facing side of Dione (1,123 kilometers, 698 miles across). North on Dione is up and rotated 18 degrees to the right. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 18, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.6 million kilometers (1.6 million miles) from Dione. Image scale is about 15 kilometers (9 miles) per pixel.

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