Tethys sports an enormous impact basin, Odysseus. The impact basin is
450-kilometers (280-miles) wide and contains a central complex of
mountains.
See PIA07693 for a close-up view of Odysseus.
Lit terrain seen here is on leading hemisphere of Tethys (1,062
kilometers, 660 miles across). North is up.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on May 31, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance
of approximately 717,000 kilometers (446,000 miles) from Tethys and at a
Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 59 degrees. Image scale is 4
kilometers (3 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
