In this photo, the Cassini spacecraft looks toward Rhea's cratered, icy landscape, with the dark line of Saturn's ringplane and the planet's murky atmosphere as a background. Rhea is Saturn's second-largest moon, at 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from less than a degree above the ringplane. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the
Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 17, 2007 at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (770,000 miles) from Rhea. Image scale is 7 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel. The
Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of
NASA, the
European Space Agency and the
Italian Space Agency.
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