The sun's low angle near the terminator highlights the topography of
craters within Rhea's wispy terrain.
A similar view, PIA06578, shows this region from a slightly different
perspective and in natural color.
This view looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Rhea (1,528 kilometers,
or 949 miles across). North is toward the top of the image.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on June 10, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance
of approximately 758,000 kilometers (471,000 miles) from Rhea and at a
Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 51 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/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.