Impact on Saturn's moon Rhea


 
Impact crater on Saturn's moon Rhea
 
24 November 2004
 
Saturn's moon Rhea shows off a bright, rayed crater near its eastern limb in this image from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft.
 
Rhea is about half the size of Earth's moon. At 1528 kilometres across, it is the second largest moon orbiting Saturn. Cassini-Huygens will image this hemisphere of Rhea again in mid-January 2005, just after the Huygens probe touchdown on Titan - with approximately one-kilometre resolution.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft narrow-angle camera on 24 October 2004, at a distance of about 1.7 million kilometres from Rhea. The image scale is approximately 10 kilometres per pixel.
 
 
 The Cassini-Huygens mission is a co-operative project of NASA, ESA and ASI, the Italian space agency.
 
 
 Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
  
 

At Saturn and Titan

 •  At Saturn and Titan (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html)

More about...

 •  More on Cassini-Huygens spacecraft (http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=35026)
 •  More on Huygens instruments (http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=31193 &fbodylongid=1604)

In depth

 •  Status reports (http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=31521 &farchive_objecttypeid=30 &farchive_objectid=30930)

Related articles

 •  Surviving extreme conditions in space (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMPT2V4QWD_extreme_0.html)
 •  How to drop in on Titan (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMWNPYO4HD_0.html)
 •  What is 'red shift'? (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM8AAR1VED_index_0.html)
 •  Observations: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM8FUXDE2E_index_0.html)

Related links

 •  NASA JPL Cassini-Huygens site (http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm)
 •  Italian Space Agency (ASI) (http://www.asi.it)