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Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2006 NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of shadow-striped Saturn and its exquisitely thin rings, with its moon Rhea hanging as a crescent in the distance. A couple of bright pixels at the center of the image mark the location of the tiny moon Pan, 26 kilometers (16 miles) across. As Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) wide. Cassini took the image on Feb. 3 in visible light with its narrow-angle camera, at a distance of approximately 4.1 million kilometers (2.5 million miles) from Saturn and 4.6 million kilometers (2.9 million miles) from Rhea. The image scale is 28 kilometers (17 miles) per pixel on Rhea. Related Links Cassini Cassini Images JPL NASA
Saturn Moons Near And Far
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2006Continuing its tour of Saturn's ring plane, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Rhea (right, in the distance), as Pandora hovers against the planet's dark shadow on the rings. |
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