Cassini captured this high-resolution view of the cratered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea as the spacecraft flew by the moon on Oct. 17, 2010. For closer views of Rhea's surface from earlier flybys, see PIA07765 and PIA08402. This view is centered on terrain at 64 degrees north latitude, 107 degrees west longitude on Rhea (1528 kilometers, 949 miles across). The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 40,000 kilometers (25,000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 88 degrees. Image scale is 238 meters (780 feet) per pixel.

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