Though much farther away from Cassini when the spacecraft acquired this
image, Saturn's second-largest moon Rhea still dwarfs the brightest icy
moon Enceladus in this scene. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across. Enceladus is 505 kilometers (314 miles) across.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Feb. 21, 2005, at a distance of approximately 2
million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from Enceladus and 2.5 million
kilometers (1.6 million miles) from Rhea. The image scale is 12 kilometers
(7 miles) per pixel on Enceladus, and 15 kilometers (9 miles) per pixel on
Rhea.
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 team is based at the Space Science
Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.