Rhea has been heavily bombarded by impacts during its history. In this
Cassini image the moon displays what may be a relatively fresh, bright,
rayed crater near Rhea's eastern limb. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949
miles) across.
This view is centered on the side of Rhea that faces away from Saturn as
the moon orbits. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini
spacecraft narrow angle camera on Nov. 10, 2004, at a distance of 3.6
million kilometers (2.2 million miles) from Rhea and at a
Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 86 degrees. North is up. The
image scale is 21 kilometers (13 miles) per pixel. The image has been
magnified by a factor of two and contrast enhanced to aid visibility of
surface features.
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.