Tethys hangs before the Cassini spacecraft, its great crater Odysseus in
view.
See PIA07693 for a close-up view of Odysseus.
This view looks toward the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Tethys (1,071
kilometers, or 665 miles across). North is up.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
Oct. 25, 2007 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared
light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of
approximately 798,000 kilometers (496,000 miles) from Tethys and at a
Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 12 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/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.