Cassini takes a northern view of Rhea, spying the large Tirawa impact basin left of center. The moon's noted bright-rayed crater can be seen at bottom. See PIA08148 for a more southerly view of this same region. Lit terrain seen here is on the anti-Saturn side of Rhea (1,528 kilometers, 949 miles across). North is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 20, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (652,000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 74 degrees. Image scale is 6 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel.

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