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Rhea (Natural Colors; credits: Lunar Explorer Italia)
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Caption NASA:"A wide crater dominates the lower right of this image while part of Rhea's brightly lit, wispy terrain can still be seen near the limb of the moon.
Smaller craters are overprinted upon this crater, telling the story of an extremely old feature that has collected impacts over the eons. Younger craters also have been collected on another of Rhea's large basins — Tirawa (see also PIA08976).
North on Rhea (approx. 1528 Km, or about 949 miles across) is up. This view looks toward the Saturn facing-Side of Rhea. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 27, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 1,1 MKM (such as about 680,000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 56°.
Image scale is roughly 6 Km (about 4 miles) per pixel".
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