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Saturn's Moons:

• Atlas
• Calypso
• Dione
• Enceladus
• Epimetheus
• Helene
• Hyperion
• Iapetus
• Mimas
• Pan
• Pandora
• Phoebe
• Prometheus
• Rhea
• Telesto
• Tethys
• Titan

Dione
(See the Dione Gallery)

Dione (Greek) is the mother of Aphrodite and is seen as a Gaia/Mother Earth figure. Discovered in 1684, Dione was one of four moons discovered by Cassini (Iapetus, Rhea & Tethys).

Made of more water ice than not it is still one of the most dense moons (3^rd) of Saturn. It probably has a large amount of silicate rock (~46%) to make it so dense.

Dione's surface is covered with craters and other features with varying reflectiveness. It's very much like a smaller and more dense Rhea. The moon is also tide locked with the same side facing Saturn. As a result the leading side is different from the trailing side.

See the Dione gallery here.

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