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Rhea: so "old" and yet so "beautiful...
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Caption NASA:"Rhea displays a prominent scar in this view from Cassini. A large and ancient impact basin can be seen at upper right. The giant feature occurs within a terrain that appears rugged and which likely is saturated with other smaller craters.
Rhea is Saturn's second-largest moon at 1.528 Km (about 949 miles) across. This view shows terrain on the moon's Trailing Hemisphere.
North is up.
The image was taken in polarized ultraviolet light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 24, 2006 at a distance of approx. 2 MKM (such as about 1,2 MMs) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 117°. Resolution in the original image was approx. 12 Km (about 7 miles) per pixel. The image has been magnified by a factor of two and contrast-enhanced to aid visibility".
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