Dione (moon)
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Dione is the fourth-largest moon of Saturn. With a mean diameter of 1,123 km and a density of about 1.48 g/cm3, Dione is composed of an icy mantle and crust overlying a silicate rocky core, with rock
Dione photographed by the Cassini spacecraft in 2008
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, discoverer of Dione
Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Dione.
Dione in true color.
Dione (Titaness)
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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Dione is an oracular goddess and Titaness. She is primarily known from Book V of Homer's Iliad, where she tends to the wounds suffered by her daughter Aphrodit
Dione (moon)
…compared to the leading hemisphere. The moon was discovered by Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684 and is named after the Titaness Dione in Greek mythology. Dione was first imaged up-close by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1980. Later, the Cassini spacecraft made multiple flybys of Dione…
Dione in the north frieze of the Pergamon Altar, Pergamon Museum in Berlin
Three goddesses from the Parthenon's east pediment, possibly Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite; c. 435 BC, British Museum.
The sanctuary of Dodona from the theater.