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[ugordan]

Are there any plans for imaging Rhea on March 21? I noticed all other moons are on the wrong side of Saturn during periapsis passage except Rhea for which there's a pretty close pass, under 100 000 km, although closest approach happens at a very high phase angle.

Rhea approach geometry and closest approach from the Solar System Simulator.

[Phil Stooke]

Here are two of the Mimas images with a bit of a stretch to show near-terminator features better.

Phil

[ugordan]

There's a color, wide angle movie of Rhea transiting Saturn's disc. With plenty of patience and Photoshopping, that could be composed into a color movie.

A single frame, color is mainly guesswork based on previously released work:



Mimas in front of Saturn's disc . I used IR1/GRN/UV3, unfortunately the IR and green images were truncated so they didn't capture the whole disc of Mimas. I used synthetic color, using UV3 data to fill the missing portions.


Photoshop was used a good deal and this is more of an art image (especially the botom) than the real thing. Still, it turned out fairly nicely.

[TritonAntares]

There's a color, wide angle movie of Rhea transiting Saturn's disc.
With plenty of patience and Photoshopping, that could be composed into a color movie.

A single frame, color is mainly guesswork based on previously released work:

Fantastic view....

This image really shows the proportions between the tiny moons - here Rhea - and the giant Saturn with his rings.
Even the thinner part of Saturns' upper gasous surface is visible at his horizon:


Composing a color, wide angle movie of Rhea transiting Saturn's disc would be superb.
Can't wait enjoying it.

Bye.