View from Rhea by Rich2

Terragen • Science/Medical • posted on Oct 03, 2007

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Description

How Saturn may appear from Rhea, one of its larger moons. Rhea is an airless ice ball over 900 miles in diameter, orbiting nearly 300,000 miles from the planet. The surface is heavily cratered, and bright ice-walled canyons crisscross its face. Because the orbit lies in the equatorial plane of Saturn, a viewer on the surface of Rhea would always see the glorious ring system edge-on, and not the spectacular arch and sweep we see in the more fanciful images. Another small inner moon, Encelaedus appears to ride along the rings’ edge. That ends today’s science lesson – class dismissed! Rendered in Terragen 0.943, World Machine terrain. Saturn, postworked in is a slightly altered image from the Cassini probe mission. Thanks for looking in!

Comments (8)

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azrabella

9:40AM | Wed, 03 October 2007

Whoa! Different for sure... (tempted to make a crack about Rhea and Uranus but on second thoughts...) Certainly not an easy place to traverse. I'll give it ***** then.

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Markal

10:30AM | Wed, 03 October 2007

You know I love these types of images and this is superb....My space images are more fantasy or sci-fi but this is true to life...most excellent. If I were azrabella I'd stay away from any cracks around Uranus....dohh! :)

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