by bystander » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:05 am
NASA |
JPL-Caltech |
Cassini Solstice Mission |
CICLOPS | 2012 Mar 12
Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon
Rhea Rev 162 Raw Preview
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, were taken on March 10, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This was a relatively distant flyby with a close-approach distance of 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers), well suited for global geologic mapping.
During the flyby, Cassini captured these distinctive views of the moon's cratered surface, creating a 30-frame mosaic of Rhea's leading hemisphere and the side of the moon that faces away from Saturn. The observations included the large Mamaldi (300 miles, or 480 kilometers, across) and Tirawa (220 miles, or 360 kilometers, across) impact basins and the 29-mile (47-kilometer) ray crater Inktomi, one of the youngest surface features on Rhea (about 950 miles, or 1,530 kilometers, across).
All of Cassini's raw images can be seen at
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
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[size=110][i]Rhea Rev 162 Raw Preview[/i][/size]
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, were taken on March 10, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This was a relatively distant flyby with a close-approach distance of 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers), well suited for global geologic mapping.
During the flyby, Cassini captured these distinctive views of the moon's cratered surface, creating a 30-frame mosaic of Rhea's leading hemisphere and the side of the moon that faces away from Saturn. The observations included the large Mamaldi (300 miles, or 480 kilometers, across) and Tirawa (220 miles, or 360 kilometers, across) impact basins and the 29-mile (47-kilometer) ray crater Inktomi, one of the youngest surface features on Rhea (about 950 miles, or 1,530 kilometers, across).
All of Cassini's raw images can be seen at [b][url]http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/[/url][/b].
[b][i]Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI[/i][/b]
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