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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...
...fiery imagination of the Greeks created more elaborate tales about the golden planet. The Greeks called it Cronus, after the evil-tempered son of Earth and Heaven, who married his sister Rhea and devoured five of his own children because he feared them as rivals. Finally, when Zeus, the sixth, was born, Rhea tricked Cronus into swallowing a stone instead. After he was dethroned by Zeus (who became the king of the gods), Cronus went off to rule another kingdom, where he reformed his ways and taught people the secrets of planting. The Romans knew Cronus as Saturn...
...other great pioneer among Saturn watchers was the 17th century Italian-French more Jean Dominique Cassini. He located and named four more satellites (Iapetus, Rhea, Dione and Tethys). But Cassini's place in the heavens, and in was history of astronomy, rests on the discovery of a gap in what was then presumed to be a solid, opaque ring around Saturn. Other moons, as well as rings, were up in the intervening centuries, bringing the number up to a dozen. It took Voyager 1 to reveal that the "Cassini division" was not a gap, but many more rings...
Comfort & Courage. Divorced by Josephine Dillon in 1930, he married Maria (Rhea) Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham, a Houston socialite whose first marriage had occurred before Gable was born: despite his obvious virility, he apparently needed the comfort and security provided by older women. The first Mrs. Gable is now 76, lives alone in Hollywood with her chihuahua, and provided a startling contrast last week when, white-haired and frail, she was photographed looking at a picture of her young husband of years ago. Rhea, now 70, lives alone in Houston...
...north, in New York's suburban Scarsdale, the women's sense of responsibility has the same ring. Says Housewife Rhea Hertel (Woman's Club, Neighborhood Association, P.T.A., League of Women Voters): "If you're receiving benefits and not contributing, what kind of person are you?" Adds Scarsdale's Grace Fitzwater (Hitchcock Presbyterian Church, Woman's Club, P.T.A.): "When we lived in New York City, I roared with laughter at this sort of thing. I never knew anyone in the city who was civic; out here I don't know anybody...