Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Far Out Rhea
Original Caption Released with Image:
Cassini caught this glimpse of Saturn's second largest moon, 1,528 kilometer (949 mile) wide Rhea on Aug. 16, 2004. Notable in the image is a brightening near the terminator.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera at a distance of 8.5 million kilometers (5.3 million miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 86 degrees. The image scale is 51 kilometers (32 miles) per pixel. The image has been enhanced and magnified by a factor of four to aid visibility.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras, were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit, http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page, http://ciclops.org.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Produced By:
CICLOPS/Space Science Institute
Mission:
Cassini
Spacecraft:
Cassini Orbiter
Target Name:
Rhea
Is a satellite of:
Saturn
Instrument:
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
Product Size:
380 samples x 380 lines
Primary Data Set:
Cassini
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Moon
facet_what:
Rhea
facet_what:
Saturn
facet_what:
Cassini
facet_what:
Visible Light
facet_what:
Cassini Orbiter
facet_what:
Huygens Probe
facet_what:
Cassini-Huygens
facet_what:
Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS)
facet_what:
Rhea (Saturn Moon)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Rhea
facet_where:
Saturn
facet_where:
California
facet_where:
Washington
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_where:
Washington, D.C.
Image #:
PIA06480
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA06480
orignial url:

Far Out Rhea