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Dione's Aeneas Crater

Dione's Aeneas Crater
Published: December 17, 2004

This narrow angle field-of-view artist's rendering is drawn from the floor of Aeneas crater, showing Dione's icy surface and the
irregular features inside the crater viewed from space. Saturn, Titan, and the Cassini spacecraft are all visible in the sky. By
David Seal (only available electronically).

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