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Dione Cassini PIA12577 survey collection

Listed in IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory)

This global map of Saturn's moon Dione was created using images taken during flybys by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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Images from NASA's Voyager mission fill the gaps in Cassini's coverage. The map is a simple cylindrical (equidistant) projection and has a scale of 153 meters (500 feet) per pixel at the equator.

The resolution of the map is 64 pixels per degree. The mean radius of Dione used for projection of this map is 563 kilometers (350 miles). The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.Original acknowledgement for data: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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