NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has swooped in on Dione, one of the moons of Saturn, and has captured amazing images of its craggy, crater-filled surface — and a very interesting feature in the background.

Saturn is an intriguing planet because it has a lot going on around it, from its spectacular rings to about 50 known moons circling it, according to a CNET report. Dione is one of the moons, and the Cassini spacecraft recently got up close and personal with it.

It’s not a very large rock, just 698 miles in diameter. Dione takes about 2.7 days to fully orbit Saturn, and its face bears the scars of many strikes, leaving craters and other fractures. It has an amazingly dynamic landscape that makes it look utterly inhospitable, even rougher than our own moon. This remarkable photo also features a white line in the distance — that’s Saturn’s rings, viewed from inside their orbit. It’s an amazing shot that is unlike anything we’ve seen.

Cassini got real close to Dione for this shot, and it was just 321 miles from the surface on June 16 when it took the photo, its fourth flyby of the moon, which endures incredibly cold temperatures.

And that won’t be the end of the Cassini visit. It will fly by yet again on August 17, and this one will be even closer. It may not match the flyby that happened back in December 2011, however, when Cassini was just 60 miles from the moon.

The Cassini Mission has been a huge boon to science ever since it launched in 1997 and reached Saturn all the way back in 2004. It has helped scientists better understand the planet and its moons.