Saturn’s moon Rhea, as seen by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on its last flyby of this moon on March 10th 2013.
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Rhea and Dione: Look-alike Moons
Rhea and Dione seem like dark and light fraternal twins in this Cassini spacecraft image, with each of these two Saturnian moons displaying a large crater oriented similarly in the northern hemisphere.
Rhea, on the left, is closer to the Cassini spacecraft than Dione in this view. Saturn is out-of-frame, far to the right of this view.
The Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn’s moon Rhea at crescent phase, a view never visible from Earth. Near the terminator, a few of Rhea’s many craters show up in sharp relief.
Rhea and Epimetheus
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
