Cassini captures new images of icy moon

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 17:30 in Astronomy & Space

New raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, were taken on March 10, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This was a relatively distant flyby with a close-approach distance of 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers), well suited for global geologic mapping.

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