Новые снимки Сатурна и его колец аппаратом Cassini

This view looks toward the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Rhea. North on Rhea is up and rotated 36 degrees to the right. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 3, 2016 using a spectral filter which preferentially admits wavelengths of ultraviolet light centered at 338 nanometers.

The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 365,000 miles (587,000 kilometers) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 9 degrees. Image scale is 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers) per pixel.

 

Regarding Rhea

Rhea, like many moons in the outer solar system, appears dazzlingly bright in full sunlight. // www.nasa.gov

 

"This is the closest view of Saturn's moon Daphnis ever taken... and it was taken less than 2 days ago by Cassini!"

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Cassini Sees Saturn Rings Oscillate Like Mini-Galaxy

Cassini is one of the most ambitious efforts in planetary space exploration. A joint endeavour of NASA, ESA and the Italian space agency, Cassini is a sophisticated spacecraft exploring the Saturnian system since 2004. //  saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

 

Vertical structures, among the tallest seen in Saturn's main rings, rise abruptly from the edge of Saturn's B ring to cast long shadows on the ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft two weeks before the planet's August 2009 equinox.