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Rhea, from about 342.000 Km
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Cassini looks upward at the South Polar Region on Rhea during a recent distant encounter. Rhea's icy surface is so heavily saturated with impact craters that the moon's limb, or edge, has a rugged, bumpy appearance. The bright splotch seen here near the upper right is impact material (or ejecta) from a relatively fresh crater.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 14, 2005, at a distance of approx. 342.000 Km (about 212.000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 36°. The image was obtained using a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 298 nnmts. The image scale is 1,6 Km per pixel
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