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The Cassini spacecraft captured Rhea (Nearest, below centre); the moon Atlas close to the narrow F ring, and Dione (in the distance), on July 8, 2007 when the spaceprobe as approximately 2.9 million kilometres from Saturn.

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The image was taken in visible light with the narrow-angle camera Image scale is 14 kilometres per pixel on Rhea and 19 kilometres per pixel on Dione.


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This image of Rhea was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on June 11, 2007, when it was approximately 364,000 kilometres away.

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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

The image shows the leading hemisphere on Rhea, which is lit up by the reflected light from Saturn. The sunlit side is completely overexposed.
North is up and rotated 28 degrees to the left.
The image was taken in visible light at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft angle of 154 degrees.
Image scale is 4 kilometres per pixel.

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This image of Rhea was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on July 17, 2007, when it was approximately 1,231,885 kilometres away.

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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

The image was taken using the RED and CL2 filters.

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This image of Rhea was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on July 17, 2007, when it was approximately 1,232,608 kilometres away.

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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

The image was taken using the CL1 and BL1 filters.

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Tirawa impact basin
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This image taken in visible light by the Cassini spaceprobe shows the 360 kilometres wide Tirawa impact basin on Rhea, on June 1, 2007

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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

North on Rhea is up.
The narrow-angle camera view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.6 million kilometres from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 55 degrees.


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This image of Rhea was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on May 11, 2007, when it was approximately 879,000 kilometres away and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft angle of 43 degrees.

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Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

North on Rhea is up and rotated about 8 degrees to the right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera.

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This image of Rhea was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on June 18, 2007, when it was approximately 2,591,898 kilometres away.

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the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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This image of Rhea was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on June 09, 2007, when it was approximately 1,824,003 kilometres away.

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The image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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This image of Rhea was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on June 01, 2007, when it was approximately 1,648,591 kilometres away.

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The image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

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Rhea and Saturn
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Rhea is seen in front of the orb of Saturn.
Saturn's unilluminated rings are seen at upper right. Rhea is the second largest of Saturn's moons at 1,528 kilometres across.


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This view looks toward the unlit side of the rings from about 3 degrees above the ringplane.
The image was taken in wavelengths of polarised infrared light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb. 4, 2007. Cassini acquired the view at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometres from Saturn and 679,000 kilometres from Rhea. Image scale is 137 kilometres per pixel on Saturn and about 80 kilometres per pixel on Rhea.

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