Dione floats in the sea of space, bisected by Saturn's edge-on ringplane. The Saturn-facing side of Dione (1,123 kilometers, 698 miles across) is visible here. North is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 2, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.5 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) from Dione. Image scale is 15 kilometers (9 miles) per pixel.

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