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Saturn with Rhea seen by Cassini

by

Nasa/JPL/SSI/Novapix

Reference

a-sat05-10049

Date

2009-12-28

Saturn, stately and resplendent in this natural color view, dwarfs the icy moon Rhea. Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) orbits beyond the rings on the right of the image. The moon Tethys is not shown here, but its shadow is visible on the planet on the left of the image. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 4, 2009 at a distance of approximately 1.3 million kilometers (808,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 72 kilometers (45 miles) per pixel.