Wispy markings reach out across Rhea's surface from its trailing
hemisphere. The bright markings appear to be fractures, like those found
on Dione.
This view looks toward the northern hemisphere on Rhea's trailing side.
North on Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is up and rotated
about 40 degrees to the right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on May 1, 2007 at a distance of approximately 1.9
million kilometers (1.2 million miles) from Rhea and at a
Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 54 degrees. Image scale is 11
kilometers (7 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.