Rhea and the Rings

Crater-scarred Rhea floats in the distance, peeking out from behind Saturn's partly shadowed Rings. This view looks upward from just beneath the Ring-Plane. The far side of the Rings is masked by Saturn's shadow.
The North Pole of Rhea is obscured by part of the A-ring and the sharply defined F-Ring.
A few bright wispy markings curl around the eastern limb of Rhea.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Feb. 22, 2006, at a distance of approx. 2,2 MKM (about 1,4 MMs) from Rhea. The image scale is about 13 Km (roughly 8 miles) per pixel on Rhea.