PIA06622: Hanging Half-Moon

Target Name: Tethys Is a satellite of: Saturn Mission: Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft: Cassini Orbiter Instrument: Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle Product Size: 995 samples x 931 lines Produced By: Cassini Imaging Team Primary Data Set: Cassini Full-Res TIFF: PIA06622.tif (258.1 kB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA06622.jpg (14.21 kB)

Original Caption Released with Image: This Cassini image shows Saturn's crater-covered moon Tethys as it slid silently along in its orbit while Saturn's delicate rings sliced the view in two. Tethys is 1,071 kilometers (665 miles) across. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Feb. 23, 2005, at a distance of approximately 2.1 million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 78 degrees. The image scale is 13 kilometers (8 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 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. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute