This Cassini image shows the cratered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea, with
impact craters near the terminator thrown into sharp relief. Rhea is
Saturn's second-largest moon, at 1,528 kilometers (949 miles across).
This view shows the leading hemisphere on Rhea. North is up and tilted 23
degrees to the left.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
March 12, 2005, through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of ultraviolet
light centered at 338 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of
approximately 1.5 million kilometers (950,000 miles) from Rhea and at a
Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 70 degrees. Resolution in the
image is 9 kilometers (6 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 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.