Uncovering Rhea

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Uncovering Rhea

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2006
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured two Saturnian moons meeting in the sky: Dione departs after crossing the face of Rhea for several minutes. Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across), at right, has a notably smoother-looking surface than Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across), suggesting the former has been modified more recently.

Cassini took the image in visible light with its narrow-angle camera on May 14, at a distance of approximately 2.7 million kilometers (1.7 million miles) from Dione and 3.1 million kilometers (1.9 million miles) from Rhea.

The Sun-moon-spacecraft, or phase, angle is about 134 degrees on both moons. Image scale is 16 kilometers (10 miles) per pixel on Dione and 18 kilometers (11 miles) per pixel on Rhea.

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