Cassini Makes Its Closest Pass At Dione

NASA's Cassini Saturn probe took this image of Saturn's icy moon Dione as it approached its only planned close flyby Oct. 11, capturing the moon against the planet's northern hemisphere as viewed almost edge-on to the rings. The spacecraft was only about 39,000 km. (24,200 mi.) away at the time...

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