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This image of Rhea was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on the 2nd March, 2010, when it was approximately 16,406 kilometres away.
The image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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This image of Rhea was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on the 2nd March, 2010, when it was approximately 22,053 kilometres away.
The image was taken using the P60 and GRN filters.

Rhea Flyby (R-2) - March 2, 2010

Cassini swoops down to within about 100 kilometers of Rhea to "sniff" the moon. Particle and fields instruments will try to determine what is coming off Rhea. The last targeted flyby of Rhea happened in November 2005.
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This image taken by the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on the 4th November, 2009, shows the trailing hemisphere of the moon Rhea and Saturn's rings.


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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Rhea was approximately 762,000 kilometres away and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft angle of 74 degrees.
North on Rhea is up and rotated 1 degree to the left.
The image scale is 5 kilometres per pixel.