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Dec. 23, 1672: Saturn's moon Rhea is discovered
Across the span of 1671 through 1684, Italian-French astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered four moons of Saturn while working under the patronage of King Louis XIV. Cassini collectively named the ...
On Dec. 23, 1672, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon. Rhea is made up of rock and ice and is covered in craters. Rhea is also the only moon discovered to ...
Between 1671 and 1684, Giovanni Cassini identified four moons of Saturn—Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys, and Dione—collectively designating them "Sidera Lodoicea." Rhea, discovered on December 23, 1672, is ...
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