Saturn's Moons

[Tuckerfan]

Okay, I'm surfing around and stumble across a French website with photos of Saturn's moons. One picture really caught my eye
What the heck is that? (I know, I know, it's a moon, duh!) Is that atmosphere? The cratering on the surface? Anybody know?

[kucharek]

Which moon are you talking about?

[Tuckerfan]

Dioné is the name given for it.

[milli360]

What the heck is that? (I know, I know, it's a moon, duh!) Is that atmosphere?

This website says it's extruded snow.

[01101001]

Okay, I'm surfing around and stumble across a French website with photos of Saturn's moons. One picture really caught my eye [...] What the heck is that? [...] Is that atmosphere? The cratering on the surface? Anybody know?

That at least seems to be some creative colorizing, different from what I see elsewhere:

http://www.seasky.org/solarsystem/sky3g5.html

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951009.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dione_(moon)

http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/ia/nineplanets/dione.html

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/dione.htm

http://www.eoascientific.com/prototy.../saturn12.html

[Kullat Nunu]

Those wisps are indeed strange. But even stranger is that Rhea has almost exactly similar markings on its other side. Both have similarly cratered leading sides. Look for example this photo.

[Crazieman]

We'll get high resolution photographs soon enough =)