MEXICO: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured high definition images of Saturn’s moon Rhea, transmitting back the hyper color composite photographs to Earth to reveal the first ultra-sharp look at the mysterious natural satellite.
A pair of images were shot back through space to Earth by Cassini, with one taken from a relative distance of around 50,000 miles from Rhea. The second image, taken on a closer flyby of the moon, were taken at around 34,000 miles away. The series of images Cassini took with its wide angle and narrow angle cameras were stitched together by Tilmann Denk and Heike Rosenberg at Freie Universität, located in Berlin.
At first intended to examine Titan, another of Saturn moons, this flyby instead examined the 950-mile wide Rhea. Though less than a third of the diameter of Titan, Rhea is the second-largest moon circling the ringed planet. Covered with massive craters and featuring extremely high reflective properties, Rhea is encased in water ice that’s several times harder than the rock underneath it thanks to the incredibly cold temperatures in the further reaches of the solar system.
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