Flying past Saturn's moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet's rings.

The image was taken in visible light with Cassini's narrow-angle camera during the spacecraft's flyby of Dione on Dec. 12, 2011. This encounter was the spacecraft's closest pass of the moon's surface, but, because this flyby was intended primarily for other Cassini instruments, it did not yield Cassini's best images of the moon. Higher resolution images were obtained during earlier flybys (see At Carthage Linea).

Dione 1.123 km across is closest to Cassini here and is on the left of the image. Potato-shaped Prometheus (86km across) appears above the rings near the center top of the image. Epimetheus (113km across) is on the right.

This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from less than one degree above the ring plane. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 108.000km from Dione. Image scale is 647m/pixel on Dione.

Source: saturn.jpl.nasa.gov