#dione

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

A silhouetted Dione in front of Saturn imaged by Cassini on December 20, 2010. This image captured from 263,000 km away. The bands on the left are Saturn's rings.

Credit: Jason Major

[ko-core-o]

Dione & Mebby

For @constellor!

[humanoidhistory]

Saturn, as seen from Dione, illustrated by Chesley Bonestell, 1967.

[krakenmare]

Cassini: Saturn with Enceladus and Dione (February 28, 2005)

[heartnosekid]

paintings of saturn's moons 🌙 | goldenbrushstroke on ig

[quiltofstars]

Saturn and three of its moons on July 22, 2024 // Martin Bernier

From left to right: Enceladus, Tethys, and Dione.

[allmythologies]

greek mythology: dione

dione was the titan goddess of the oracle of dodona in thesprotia, and the mother of aphrodite by zeus. her name is simply the feminine form of zeus. dione was described as "the temple associate" of zeus at dodona. the three elderly prophetesses of the shrine, known collectively as the peleiades, were probably her priestesses. these women were named "the doves" after the sacred bird of dione's daughter aphrodite who also posssessed a temple at the shrine.

[pangeen]

“ Moon and the two giants “ // Rami Ammoun

[viridare]

NASA Hubble Space Telescope - An Infrared View of Saturn

[deathlessathanasia]

"… he [Zeus] left the house of Hera, he refused the bed of Dione, he threw away the love of Deo, he fled from Themis, he deserted Leto - no charm was left for him but only in union with Persephoneia." (Nonnos, Dionysiaca Book 5)

When your harem of adult women doesn't do it for you, only your young virgin daughter does.

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Saturn's moon Dione drifts before the planet's rings, seen here almost edge on. For all their immense width, the rings are relatively paper-thin, about 10 meters in most places. For its part, Dione is about 1,123 kilometers across.

Credit: NASA/Cassini

[livingforstars]

Saturn with Moons Tethys and Dione - March 18th, 1996.

"Saturn and two of its larger moons - Tethys and Dione - were photographed by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which flew by the planet in November of 1980. This picture gives an indication of Saturn's extensive ring system, which can be seen casting a shadow on the planet, as does Tethys. Saturn's rings are composed of many chunks of ice, ranging in size from a pebble to a car. The rings have several large gaps, the largest of which is clearly visible in the picture and is named the Cassini Division, after its discoverer. Saturn appears brighter than most stars in the sky, and its rings can be discerned with a small telescope."

[humanoidhistory]

Saturn, as seen from a canyon on the moon Dione, painted by Kim Poor, 1995.

[krakenmare]

Cassini: dark side of Dione (July 2, 2004)

[maidoftheday]

Today's Monster Girl of the Day: Dione from Classroom for Heroes

[quiltofstars]

Jupiter and Saturn and a few of their moons // MAILLARD

Projected onto the disk of Jupiter is its largest moon, Ganymede.

Several moons surround Saturn. Counterclockwise from left to right: Tethys, Dione, a background star, Mimas, Enceladus, Titan, and Rhea.