Two large craters and hints of several smaller ones are visible in this
Cassini image of Saturn's icy moon Tethys (1060 kilometers, or 659 miles,
across).
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow
angle camera on Sept. 23, 2004, at a distance of 7.9 million kilometers
(4.9 million miles) from Tethys and at a Sun- Tethys-spacecraft, or
phase, angle of 80 degrees. The image scale is 48 kilometers (30 miles)
per pixel. The image has been contrast-enhanced and magnified by a factor
of four to aid visibility.
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 Cassini-Huygens 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 team
is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.