Odysseus impact basin lies between night and day on Tethys.
Lit terrain seen here is on the anti-Saturn side of Tethys (1,071
kilometers, or 665 miles across), or the side that always faces away from
Saturn as the moon orbits the planet. North is up.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Feb. 26, 2007 at a distance of approximately 1.5
million kilometers (1 million miles) from Tethys and at a
Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 96 degrees. Image scale is 9
kilometers (6 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.
