After a couple of years in highinclination orbits that limited its ability to encounter Saturns moons NASAs Cassini spacecraft returned to Saturns equatorial plane in March As a prelude to its return to the realm of the icy satellites the spacecraft had its first relatively close flyby of an icy moon apart from Titan in almost two years on Feb During this encounter Cassinis cameras captured images of the icy moon Rhea as shown in these in two image mosaics The views were taken about an hour and a half apart as Cassini drew closer to Rhea Images taken using clear green infrared and ultraviolet spectral filters were combined to create these enhanced color views which offer an expanded range of the colors visible to human eyes in order to highlight subtle color differences across Rheas surface The moons surface is fairly uniform in natural colorbrbrNASAJPLCaltechSpace Science Institute