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Rhea and Saturn in natural colors
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Caption NASA originale:"The slim crescent of the moon Rhea glides silently onto the featureless, golden face of Saturn. In an interplay of contrast and shadow, the moon goes dark against the Planet, and then its crescent suddenly brightens as it slips in front of Saturn's night side.
This view looks down onto the unlit side of Saturns Rings, which cast soft, linear shadows onto the Planet's Northern Hemisphere.
The image was acquired by the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on March 21, 2006, at a distance of approx. 221.000 Km (about 137.000 miles) from Rhea. The image scale is approx. 13 Km (about 8 miles) per pixel".
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