Age Of Destruction

grind: Dione, photographed by Cassini, 17th December 2010.

The animation plays forward, then back, then loops. 

Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.

rough cut: Dione, photographed 8 times by Cassini, 20th December 2010.

Image credit: NASA/ESA/SSI. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.

harvest: Dione, Saturn, and Saturn’s rings, photographed by Cassini, 20th December 2010.

Crescent Dione, seen against part of crescent Saturn. The rings are visible at top, lit from below (notice that at extreme top right you can see a portion of the rings on the far side of Saturn).

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gypsy: Rings and moons of Saturn, photographed by Cassini, 31st December 2005.

Nominally a photograph of the small moon Polydeuces, which is not obviously visible. Polydeuces is, however, co-orbital with Dione, which could be the otherwise unidentified moon at bottom.

See also: the dark (animated)and more space minimalism.

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distance: Dione and Titan, photographed by Cassini, 6th November 2011.

Dione is 135,000km away from Cassini. Since Titan is actually almost 5 times as large as Dione, but here appears about 2/3rds the size, I’d estimate that Titan is about 1,000,000km away.

More Dione. More Titan.

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arma virumque cano: Dione, photographed by Cassini, 18th May 2010.

The large crater at centre is Aeneas, at 15N 45W, named for the Trojan hero of Virgil’s Aenid. The canyon system at bottom right is the Tibur Chasmata, with the Latium and Larissa Chasma above it, all named for locations appearing in the Aenid. The double craters at top left are Romulus and Remus. 

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posterize: Enceladus, photographed by Cassini, 17th May 2010.

“Reflected light”. I believe the second moon (down and right of centre) is Dione.

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white light/white heat: Dione, photographed by Cassini, 26th December 2009.

From 650,000 kilometers away. 

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crush: Dione, photographed by Cassini, 8th February 2008.

Cassini studies have revealed that the wispy features at top left are bright ice cliffs several hundred meters high, created by tectonic fracturing.

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glow: Saturn system, photographed by Cassini, 13th March 2006.

The moon at centre, next to the rings seen edge on, is Janus. I guess that the large moon at bottom left is Dione. As for the moon just peeping out under the limb of Saturn - your guess is as good as mine.

Image credit: NASA/ESA/SSI.