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Titan and Dione

Natural color image of Titan and Dione in front of Saturn's rings
Photojournal: PIA14910
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Published: December 22, 2011

Saturn's fourth-largest moon, Dione, can be seen through the haze of the planet's largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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