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Saturn and Rhea
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Caption NASA:"A serene orb of ice is set against the gentle pastel clouds of giant Saturn. Rhea transits the face of the gas giant, whose darkened Rings and their planet-hugging shadows appear near upper right.
Rhea is the second largest of Saturn's moons.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the Rings from about 3° above the Ring-Plane.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The view was acquired with the wide-angle camera on Feb. 4, 2007. Cassini acquired the view at a distance of approx. 1,2 MKM (about 700.000 miles) from Saturn and approx. 679.000 Km (about 422.000 miles) from Rhea.
Image scale is roughly 68 Km (about 42 miles) per pixel on Saturn and about 40 Km (about 25 miles) per pixel on Rhea".
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