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Rhea with Saturn seen by Cassini

author: Nasa/JPL/SSI/Novapix

reference: a-sat05-10048

Image Size 300 DPI: 12 * 12 cm

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward Rhea's cratered, icy landscape with the dark line of Saturn's ringplane and the planet's murky atmosphere as a background. Rhea is Saturn's second-largest moon, at 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 17, 2007 at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (770,000 miles) from Rhea. Image scale is 7 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel.

 

Keywords for this photo:

2007 - ASTRONOMY - CASSINI - ICE - PLANET - RHEA - RING - SATELLITE - SATURN - SATURN'S MOON -