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volcanopele
The Rhea crater names proposal has finally been approved, adding 42 new names to those approved back in the Voyager era. Most importantly, IMHO, is that "The Splat", Rhea's prominent ray crater on its leading hemisphere FINALLY has a name, Inktomi.

http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/rhea_comp.pdf
MarcF
I just found that some additional names have recently been attributed to features on Rhea:

"Thirteen new names have been approved for features on Rhea, including 1 crater, 5 catenae, 5 chasmata, and 2 fossae. The descriptor terms and spellings of 2 approved names have also been changed; Kun Lun Chasma was changed to Kunlun Linea, and Pu Chou Chasma was changed to Puchou Catenae."

The map:
http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/rhea_comp.pdf

The list of names:
http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=RHEA

The old big basin South-West of Tirawa is now called Mamaldi.
This Moon seems to be the best mapped in the Saturnian system, with 145 features having an official name.
I have the feeling that it won't be easy to remember all these names !!

Marc.
Mariner9
Hopefully we will get ccontinuation of the Google-Earth and Google-Mars series with selections like Google-Rhea, Google-Eceladus, Google-Gallifrey, and so on.
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