The Cassini spacecraft looks down onto high northern latitudes on Tethys,
spying the enormous impact basin Odysseus.
Lit terrain seen here is on the anti-Saturn side of Tethys (1,071
kilometers, or 665 miles across). North is towards the top of the image.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on March 11, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance
of approximately 765,000 kilometers (475,000 miles) from Tethys and at a
Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 97 degrees. Image scale is 5
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.