Word: rhea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most stunning new spacescape was presented by Rhea, named after Saturn's mythological wife-sister. Voyager 1 approached so close, less than 72,000 km (45,000 miles) away, that Rhea's features showed with crystalline sharpness. It too looked like the earth's moon, but its craters are so densely packed that U.S. Geological Survey Planetary Geologist Larry Soderblom called them "shoulder-to-shoulder craters, falling on top of each other...