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New images of the fractured turf of Saturn"slittlevisited moon Dione have been snapped by NASAs Cassini booster as theprobe achieved a stand in flyby of Dione as well as Titan.
The Titan flyby took place Apr 5, and the Dione flyby occurredApril 7 in the UTC time section (April 6 Pacific time). The flybys were madewithout any scheme in in in between the moons interjection to a felicitous fixing ofthe dual bodies.
During the Titan pass, an astonishing unconstrained resetoccurred and Cassini performed fewer images of Titanthan expected. But the cameras were reset prior to reaching the icy moon Dione,which was the first aim on this stand in flyby. Cassini has visited Dioneonly once before, in Oct 2005.
Cassini swooped down to inside of about 300 miles (500kilometers) of Diones surface. The new tender images of Dione show the moons fracturedterrain and craters big and small.
Scientists are poring over interpretation from Dione to discernwhether the moon could be a source of charged particles to the environmentaround Saturn and element to one of the rings. They are additionally perplexing tounderstand the story of dim element found on Dione.
Cassini had done 3 prior stand in flybys and anothertwo are programmed in the years ahead. The mission is impending the finish of the firstextension, well well known as the Equinox Mission. It will proceed the second missionextension, well well known as the Solstice Mission, in Oct 2010. One of the lastplanned activities of Cassini at the finish of the Solstice Mission is to fly intoan circuit in in between Saturn and the rings in an bid to establish how most massis in the rings, that will assistance scientists determinethe rings" age.
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