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Rhea behind the Rings (natural colors)
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Caption NASA originale:"The Rings cannot hide the ragged, icy crescent of Rhea, here imaged in color by the Cassini spacecraft: The second-largest moon of Saturn shines brightly through gaps in the Rings.
Rhea lies beyond the dim, unlit side of the Rings. A diffuse clump of material lies in the F-Ring, on the side nearest to Cassini.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view, which approximates the scene as it might appear to human eyes. The view was acquired with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 1, 2006 at a distance of approx. 1,2 MKM (about 700.000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 118°. Image scale is roughly 7 Km (about 4 miles) per pixel".
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