Bright light reflects off the wispy terrain of Saturn's moon Rhea in this
image which looks down on the high northern latitudes of the icy moon.
Lit terrain seen here is on the trailing hemisphere of Rhea (1,528
kilometers, or 949 miles across). The north pole lies darkened just to the
right of the middle of the terminator. The image was taken in visible
light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 19, 2009.
The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.1 million
kilometers (684,000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or
phase, angle of 66 degrees. Image scale is 6 kilometers (4 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.