According to reports, this week, crater-pocked Dione was there in the limelight out of the 50 known moons of Saturn. It drew attention of many when NASA's Cassini spacecraft carried out a final flyby and sent high-resolution images to Earth.

CNet has reported that Dione, on the small side, is having a diameter of only 698 miles in diameter. Dione has been named after the mother of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love.

Latest photos by Cassini showed details about icy and crater-covered surface of Dione. After the August 17 flyby, Cassini reached within 295 miles of the moon, close enough to take images of craters, chasms and other surface features of the moon.

According to Carolyn Porco of the Cassini team, "I am moved, as I know everyone else is, looking at these exquisite images of Dione's surface and crescent, and knowing that they are the last we will see of this far-off world for a very long time to come". Porco added that Cassini has truly come up with surprising information.

It has been reported by LA Times that the last flyby's aim was to look at gravitational field of Dione. It was an added advantage that the spacecraft captured detailed final images. It is expected that further study of photos captured by Dione will reveal more about internal makeup and geologic processes of the moon.

As per the reports, now, Cassini is done with concentrating on Dione, and will be flying past the moon Encedalus.