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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-02 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Prometheus is seen near Saturn's tenuous F ring as the moon orbits in the Roche Division, between the F and A rings. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11527:
Between the Lines
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-07-08 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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The moon Prometheus and a bit of Saturn's northern hemisphere are both brilliantly lit by the sun here, making the A ring seem dim in comparison. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11531:
Bright Duo
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The effects of the moon Prometheus create intricate formations in Saturn's thin F ring as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11535:
Prometheus' Trail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-07 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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The moon Prometheus casts a shadow on the thin F ring marked with streamer-channels created by the moon in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox.
PIA11553:
Shadow and Streamer-channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-26 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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The moon Prometheus casts a shadow on Saturn's F ring near a streamer-channel it has created on the ring. The image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox.
PIA11566:
Roche Division Shadow Caster
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-02 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Prometheus casts a shadow on the narrow F ring in this image captured by NASA's Cassini Orbiter weeks after the planet's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11614:
Shadow on a Thin Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-25 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn's moon Prometheus, orbiting near the streamer-channels it has created in the thin F ring, casts a shadow on the A ring in this image taken a little more than a week after the planet's August 2009 equinox.
PIA11631:
Streamer-channels and Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-05 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's small moon Prometheus, slightly overexposed in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows off its potato-like shape as it orbits in the Roche Division between the A ring and thin F ring.
PIA12520:
Little Tuber Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-28 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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The effects of the small moon Prometheus loom large on two of Saturn's rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft a short time before Saturn's August 2009 equinox.
PIA12537:
Affecting Two Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-19 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Appearing like eyes on a potato, craters cover the dimly lit surface of the moon Prometheus in this high-resolution image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's early 2010 flyby.
PIA12593:
Cratered Spud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-08 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's A ring appears bright compared to the thin F ring, which is shepherded by the moon Prometheus, in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12607:
Prometheus Between Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-12 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Prometheus casts a narrow shadow on the rings near the much larger shadow cast by the planet in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft about five months after Saturn's August 2009 equinox.
PIA12631:
Moon Shadow, Planet Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-13 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's small, potato-shaped moon Prometheus orbits between the main rings and the thin F ring in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12675:
Prometheus Amid Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-26 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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The gravity of potato-shaped Prometheus periodically creates streamer-channels in the F ring, and the moon's handiwork can be seen in the dark channels in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12684:
Fleeing the Scene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-03 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this close view of Saturn's moon Pandora during the spacecraft's flyby on June 3, 2010. Pandora orbits beyond Saturn's thin F ring.
PIA12690:
Flying by Pandora
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-20 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Prometheus casts a long shadow across the A ring in the middle-right side of this image taken shortly before the planet's August 2009 equinox by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12703:
Shadow Before Equinox
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-07-11 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's small, potato-shaped moon Prometheus appears embedded within the planet's rings near the center of this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft while the larger moon Mimas orbits beyond the rings.
PIA12774:
Planted Potato
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-03-05 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks across Saturn's rings and finds the moon Prometheus, a shepherd of the thin F ring. Prometheus looks like a small white bulge near the F ring -- the outermost ring seen here -- above the center of the image.
PIA14598:
Across to Prometheus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-01 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Like a shepherd guarding his sheep, Prometheus keeps a lonely watch over the F ring in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14657:
A Shepherd's Watch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-21 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Although their gravitational effects on nearby ring material look quite different, Prometheus and Pan are both shepherd moons, holding back nearby ring edges in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA17133:
Two Shepherds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-09 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Prometheus, seen here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, sculpting the F ring while Daphnis (too small to discern in this image) raises waves on the edges of the Encke gap.
PIA17140:
Artists at Work
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-27 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Similar to many of the small, inner moons of Saturn, Prometheus points its long axis at Saturn as if giving us directions to the planet. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA17153:
Pointing Toward Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-31 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Prometheus orbits near some of its handiwork in the F ring in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Prometheus and its partner Pandora gravitationally sculpt and maintain the narrow F ring.
PIA17158:
Prometheus' Handiwork
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-19 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's potato-shaped moon Prometheus is shown in this close-up from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18186:
Prometheus Popping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-14 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft within the vast expanse of Saturn's rings, Prometheus appears as little more than a dot. But that little moon still manages to shape the F ring, confining it to its narrow domain.
PIA18272:
A Dot Does a Lot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-09 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Prometheus is caught in the act of creating gores and streamers in the F ring. Scientists believe that Prometheus and its partner-moon Pandora are responsible for much of the structure in the F ring as shown by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18270:
Gored of the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-06 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Prometheus, seen here looking suspiciously blade-like, is captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft near some of its sculpting in the F ring.
PIA18324:
Ring Slicer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-08 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied details on the pockmarked surface of Saturn's moon Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across) during a moderately close flyby on Dec. 6, 2015. This is one of Cassini's highest resolution views of Prometheus.
PIA17207:
Prometheus Up Close
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-07 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
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The thin sliver of Saturn's moon Prometheus lurks near ghostly structures in Saturn's narrow F ring in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Many of the narrow ring's faint and wispy features result from its gravitational interactions with Prometheus.
PIA21340:
Prometheus and the Ghostly F Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The first artificial satellite in the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, returned images of the natural moons following a successful insertion into orbit.
PIA05419:
Crescent Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-10 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's icy moon Rhea captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows hints of its heavily cratered surface, including a bright feature near the terminator (day-night boundary).
PIA05431:
Receding Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-26 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught a hint of Rhea's heavily cratered surface as it sped rapidly away from the moon on its first orbit of Saturn.
PIA06463:
Distant Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught this glimpse of Saturn's second largest moon, 1,528 kilometer (949 mile) wide Rhea on Aug. 16, 2004.
PIA06480:
Far Out Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The icy moon Rhea, Saturn's second largest satellite, hangs before NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this narrow angle camera image, showing just a hint of its crater-pocked surface.
PIA06490:
Second Largest Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-09 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles, across).
PIA06516:
Rhea's Battered Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-22 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Rhea, which is about half the size of Earth's moon. At 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across, it is the second-largest moon orbiting Saturn.
PIA06525:
A Real Shiner
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea has been heavily bombarded by impacts during its history. In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the moon displays what may be a relatively fresh, bright, rayed crater near Rhea's eastern limb.
PIA06553:
Fresh Crater?
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea.
PIA06555:
Rhea's Ancient Surface
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Impact-battered Rhea exhibits a mottled appearance in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06559:
Mottled Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-11 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Features on the surface of Saturn's moon Rhea reveal clues about the moon's history. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows two large impact basins near center and bottom exhibit central peaks.
PIA06560:
Ancient Impacts
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows predominantly the impact-scarred leading hemisphere of Saturn's icy moon Rhea.
PIA06564:
Rhea and Her Craters
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Rhea, showing the region's bright wispy markings.
PIA06575:
Impact Central
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Rhea, seen here in natural color.
PIA06578:
Rhea in Natural Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-07 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows two large craters lie along the boundary between day and night on Saturn's moon Rhea.
PIA06599:
Rhea's Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This false-color picture of Saturn's moon Rhea from NASA's Cassini spacecraft enhances slight differences in natural color across the moon's face.
PIA06609:
Color on Rhea?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-05 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Though farther away from Cassini when the spacecraft acquired this image, Saturn's second-largest moon Rhea still dwarfs the brightest icy moon Enceladus in this scene. Image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA06620:
Rhea and Enceladus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-19 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The ancient and battered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea shows a notable dark swath of territory near the eastern limb in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06630:
Dark Patch
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the cratered surface of Saturn's moon Rhea, with impact craters near the terminator thrown into sharp relief.
PIA06637:
Rhea's Relief
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The large Tirawa impact basin on Saturn's moon Rhea is visible at the two o'clock position in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06641:
Big Basin
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Looking closely at Saturn's moon Rhea during a somewhat distant flyby, NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides this view of what appears to be a bright, rayed and therefore relatively young crater.
PIA06648:
Great White Splat
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Saturn's moon Rhea displays one of its more prominent features here: a bright, rayed crater which was seen at much higher resolution in an image taken two weeks earlier by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07514:
Rhea's Bright Splat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-07 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's brightly sunlit moon Rhea commands the foreground in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07517:
Sun-Drenched Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-23 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The story of the solar system is written upon the faces of its many worlds, such as Saturn's icy moon Rhea, seen here in an image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07527:
Rhea's Memory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-11 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Rhea displays two large impact features here, along the terminator (the boundary between day and night), plus a superb rayed crater to the east. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07539:
Diversity of Impacts
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-01 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's moon Rhea captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the tremendous bright splat that coats much of the moon's leading hemisphere.
PIA07554:
Rhea's Bright Blemish
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-17 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Like the rest of Rhea's surface, the southern polar region of this Saturn moon has been extensively re-worked by cratering over the eons. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows most sizeable craters have smaller, younger impact sites within them.
PIA07566:
Rhea: Polar View
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft 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.
PIA07572:
Above Rhea's South Pole
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The giant Tirawa impact basin straddles the day and night boundary on Saturn's moon Rhea in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07575:
Tirawa at Twilight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-09 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Rhea is an alien ice world, but in this frame-filling view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft it is vaguely familiar. Here, Rhea's cratered surface looks in some ways similar to our own Moon, or the planet Mercury.
PIA07583:
Frame-Filling Rhea
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This half-lit view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft beautifully captures the ponderously old and cratered surface of Saturn's icy moon Rhea. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across.
PIA07606:
Half-Moon
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Rhea's distinctive bright and relatively fresh-rayed crater lies in stark contrast to the large, round basin which sits along the terminator (the boundary between day and night) in this unmagnified view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07609:
Crater Contrast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-17 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This map of the surface of Saturn's moon, Rhea, illustrates the regions that were imaged by NASA's Cassini during the spacecraft's close flyby of the moon on Nov. 26, 2005.
PIA07756:
Prime Time for Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea floats below the innermost regions of Saturn's amazing rings in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view of the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Rhea allows a glimpse of the wispy terrain that covers the trailing hemisphere of Rhea.
PIA07635:
Sleek Rings, Rugged Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-30 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Gray and barren Rhea drifts beneath Saturn's more colorful rings. Bright wispy markings on the trailing hemisphere of Rhea are just visible curling along the western limb in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07642:
Rhea in Profile
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This giant mosaic reveals Saturn's icy moon Rhea in her full, crater-scarred glory. The images in this mosaic were taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera during a close flyby on Nov. 26, 2005.
PIA07763:
Rhea: Full Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-06 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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In the nick of time, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this image of the eastern rim of Saturn's moon Rhea's bright, ray crater. The impact event appears to have made a prominent bright splotch on the leading hemisphere of Rhea.
PIA07764:
Catch that Crater
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows craters within craters cover the scarred face of Saturn's moon Rhea in this oblique, high-resolution view of terrain on the moon's western hemisphere.
PIA07765:
Craters, Craters Everywhere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This frame from an animation show two crescent moons dance around Saturn as far-off Dione slips behind its sibling moon Rhea. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view on Dec. 5, 2005.
PIA07770:
Rhea Eclipses Dione (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-22 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Rhea was created using data taken during NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 667 meters (2,188 feet) per pixel.
PIA07780:
Map of Rhea -- December 2005
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This close view of Rhea prominently shows two large impact basins on the ancient and battered moon. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Dec. 23, 2005.
PIA07685:
Pulverized Pulchritude (Monochrome)
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This close view of Rhea, taken on Dec. 23, 2005 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows two large impact basins on the ancient and battered moon. The great age of these basins is suggested by the large number of smaller craters that are overprinted on them.
PIA07686:
Pulverized Pulchritude (Enhanced Color)
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Scarred and battered Rhea fills NASA's Cassini spacecraft's view. Notable here is the sharp relief of steep crater walls near the terminator. Icy Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across) is Saturn's second-largest moon.
PIA07689:
Cratered Iceball
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Bright, wispy markings stretch across a region of darker terrain on Saturn's moon Rhea. This image was taken using NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 17, 2006.
PIA08120:
Rhea's Wisps in Color
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This intense false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft highlights and enhances color variations across the cratered and cracked surface of Saturn's moon Rhea.
PIA08121:
Intense Color on Rhea
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Rhea shows off her bright, fresh-looking impact crater in this view from NASA's Cassini view taken during a close approach.
PIA08148:
Revisiting the Splat
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down upon Rhea, whose cratered surface was already ancient before any complex life developed on Earth. The terrain seen here has probably changed little in the past billion years.
PIA08173:
The Record of Rhea
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Enceladus briefly passes behind the crescent of Rhea in these images, which are part of a 'mutual event' sequence taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These sequences help scientists refine our understanding of the orbits of Saturn's moons.
PIA08180:
Now You See Me…
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A prominent scar on Rhea is seen by NASA's Cassini. A large and ancient impact basin is seen at upper right. The giant feature occurs within a terrain that appears rugged and which likely is saturated with other smaller craters.
PIA08186:
Reminder of Ages Past
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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. This is image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08189:
Bright Ice Below
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Two Saturnian moons meet in the sky. Dione departs after crossing the face of Rhea for several minutes. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 14, 2006.
PIA08203:
Uncovering Rhea
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Rhea's devastated surface creates a jagged terminator as mountains and crater rims break-up the line between day and night. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 22, 2006.
PIA08208:
Ragged Crescent
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In a silent orbital ballet, Saturn's crater-covered moon Rhea slips between the moons Mimas and Enceladus. The movie was created using 59 clear-filter images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera over a period of about 40 minutes.
PIA07804:
The Silent Spheres Animation Icon
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Two frigid moons, Rhea and Enceladus, shine in reflected light from Saturn. In such low light and at great distance, Rhea's cratered surface looks deceptively smooth in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08224:
Planetglow
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Rhea and Enceladus shared the sky just before the smaller moon passed behind its larger, cratered sibling.This image is part of a 'mutual event' series in which one moon passes close to or in front of another
PIA08229:
Enceladus Approaches
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Two slim crescents smile toward NASA's Cassini spacecraft following an occultation event.
PIA08237:
Rhea Releases Enceladus
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The rings cannot hide the ragged, icy crescent of Rhea, here imaged in color by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The second-largest moon of Saturn shines brightly through gaps in the rings
PIA08239:
Coy Rhea
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Bright streaks adorn the face of densely cratered Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08307:
Resplendent Rhea
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Rhea was created using data taken during NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys.
PIA08343:
Map of Rhea - December 2006
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The bright crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus slides past distant Rhea in this mutual event, or occultation, in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08350:
Enceladus Transits Rhea Animation Icon
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This view looks toward Rhea's north polar region, where icy fractures slither away toward the south as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08851:
Barren Pole
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Side-by-side natural color and false-color views highlight the wispy terrain on Rhea's trailing hemisphere as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08871:
Color Across Rhea
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Rhea displays a marked color contrast from north to south that is particularly easy to see in this extreme color-enhanced view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08886:
Drawing Out Details
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft examines the desolate, cratered crescent of Rhea, a surface so heavily bombarded over the eons that new craters are virtually guaranteed to form on top of older ones. The large Tirawa impact basin is visible here
PIA08909:
Rhea's Scars
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Rhea brushes the stormy face of Saturn, an airless ice orb against the feathery bands of a gas giant as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08917:
Crossing Saturn
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Wispy markings reach out across Rhea's surface from its trailing hemisphere. The bright markings appear to be fractures, like those found on Dione
PIA08962:
Rhea's Bright Wisps
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After nearly three years at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to observe the planet's retinue of icy moons. Rhea's cratered face attests to its great age, while its bright wisps hint at tectonic activity in the past
PIA08970:
Accustomed to Her Face
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Rhea sports an immense impact scar on its leading hemisphere, like several other major Saturnian moons. The impact basin, seen above center on the day-night dividing line, or terminator, is named Tirawa
PIA08976:
Tirawa on the Terminator
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The night side of Rhea shines softly in reflected light from Saturn, as captured in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. A similar effect, called Earthshine, can often be seen dimly illuminating the dark side Earth's moon.
PIA08986:
Rhea in Saturnshine
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Large and medium-sized impact basins on Rhea's trailing hemisphere are thrown into sharp relief by the grazing rays of the Sun. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA09019:
Craters in Relief
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Bright, wispy markings cover the trailing hemisphere of Rhea. This image was taken in visible green light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 22, 2007.
PIA09725:
A Defining Feature
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