PIA 11458
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The terminator between light and dark throws Rhea's cratered surface into stark relief while the southern hemisphere is scored by bright icy cliffs.
North on Rhea is up and rotated 42 degrees to the right in this 2-tile mosaic. This view looks toward the leading hemisphere of Rhea (1528 kilometers, 949 miles across).
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Feb. 2, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 181,000 kilometers (112,000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 91 degrees. Image scale is 1 kilometer (3,300 feet) per pixel.
The Cassini Equinox Mission is a joint United States and European endeavor. 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 was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini Equinox Mission visit http://ciclops.org, http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Released: March 27, 2009 (PIA 11458)
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