Rhea drifts in front of Saturn. The battered, icy moon is seen here near
the western limb of the planet's northern hemisphere.
This image was taken eight hours after PIA09841. The view looks
toward the anti-Saturn side of Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles
across). North is up.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
Jan. 17, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of
ultraviolet light centered at 338 nanometers. The view was acquired at a
distance of approximately 576,000 kilometers (358,000 miles) from Rhea and
at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 12 degrees. Image scale is 3
kilometers (2 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm.
The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
