24/7 Space News  
Get Our Free Newsletters Via Email
  
Search All Our Sites - Powered By Bing
Saturn's Rhea - A Real Shiner

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2004
Saturn's moon Rhea shows off the moon equivalent of a black eye - a bright, rayed crater near its eastern limb. Rhea is about half the size of Earth's moon. At 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across, it is the second-largest moon orbiting Saturn.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Oct. 24, 2004, at a distance of about 1.7 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 40 degrees.

The image scale is approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel. Cassini will image this hemisphere of Rhea again in mid-January 2005, just after the Huygens probe landing on Titan - with approximately 1-kilometer (0.6-mile) resolution.

Related Links
Cassini-Huygens mission at JPL
Cassini imaging team
SpaceDaily
Search SpaceDaily
Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, But We Launched It
Paris (AFP) Nov 19, 2004
When the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft completes its journey to Saturn's moon Titan in January, its probe will carry out many missions - among them, to boldly blast rock 'n' roll music where none has been heard before.
.




.




Memory Foam Mattress Review

Newsletters :: SpaceDaily Express :: SpaceWar Express :: TerraDaily Express :: Energy Daily
XML Feeds :: Space News :: Earth News :: War News :: Solar Energy News