Moons Near and Far

 

Distant Rhea (right) poses here for the Cassini spacecraft, as Pandora

hovers against Saturn's dark shadow on the rings.

 

 

This image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft

narrow-angle camera on Feb. 12, 2006, at a distance of approximately 3.6

million kilometers (2.3 million miles) from Pandora and 4.3 million

kilometers (2.7 million miles) from Rhea. The image scale is 26 kilometers

(16 miles) per pixel on Rhea.

 

 

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

saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team

homepage is at ciclops.org.

 

 

credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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