Cassini Says Farewell to Dione

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn’s moon Dione on Monday, Aug. 17 -- the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft’s long mission. Cassini’s closest approach, within 295 miles (474 kilometers) of Dione’s surface, will occur at 11:33 a.m. PDT (2:33 p.m. EDT). Mission controllers expect fresh images to begin arriving on Earth within a couple of days following the encounter.