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Tirawa basin is a large impact crater on Saturn’s moon Rhea at 34.2°N 151.7°W / 34.2; -151.7. It was glimpsed by Voyager 1 during its flyby of the moon and later photographed in greater detail by the Cassini orbiter.Tirawa is 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) deep in places as measured in NASA Voyager images and is 360 kilometers (220 mi) across.The crater has a slightly elliptic outline and an elongated central peak complex suggesting it was caused by an oblique impact.

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