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Bright "Splat", Bright "Ice"...
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Caption originale:"Rhea's crater-saturated surface shows a large bright blotch, which was likely created when a geologically recent impact sprayed bright, fresh ice ejecta over the moon's surface. The rim of the great Tirawa impact basin can be seen near the top of the image. The giant feature is approx. 360 Km (about 220 miles) across.
This equatorial view captures Rhea's Leading Hemisphere. North is up and rotated 40° to the right.
The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 28, 2006 at a distance of approx. 481.000 Km (about 299.000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 23°.
Image scale is approx. 3 Km (about 2 miles) per pixel".
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