Rhea

Moon

Saturn's second-largest moon, composed mostly of water ice.

Facts

TypeMoon
OrbitsSaturn
Distance from parent body527,108 km
Diameter1,527 km
Mass2.30 × 10^21 kg
Surface gravity0.26 m/s²
Temperature-197°C
Orbital period5 days
Apparent magnitude10
Redshift0
Discovered1672

Rhea in context

At 1,527 km across, Rhea is 44 percent of the diameter of Earth's Moon.

Its mass is less than a thousandth of the mass of Earth.

It orbits Saturn at 527,108 km, further out than the Moon orbits Earth.

A single orbit takes 4.5 days.

An average temperature of 76 K works out at -197 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.

It has been on record since 1672.

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