Roughed-up Rhea

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the battered surface of the moon Rhea.

See PIA09895 and PIA10464 to learn more about this moon. This view looks toward leading hemisphere of Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across). North on Rhea is up.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 13, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 44,000 kilometers (27,000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea spacecraft, or phase, angle of 103 degrees. Image scale is 3 kilometers (about 2 miles) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.