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Sensational Sights Raw Preview #3

Caption: This unprocessed image was taken on March 21, 2006 and shows Rhea in front of Saturn.

The image was taken with the wide angle camera from a distance of approximately 221,100 kilometers (137,400 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 145 degrees. Resolution in the image is about 13 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel.

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 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

Credit: Courtesy: Cassini Imaging Team & NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Usage Restrictions: Image is in the public domain. Appropriate caption is requested.