Bright streaks adorn the face of densely cratered Rhea, Saturn's second
largest moon.
The lit terrain seen here is on the leading hemisphere of Rhea (1,528
kilometers, or 949 miles across). North is up and rotated five degrees to
the right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Oct. 11, 2006 at a distance of approximately
756,000 kilometers (470,000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft,
or phase, angle of 49 degrees. Image scale is 5 kilometers (3 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.