The Cassini spacecraft surveys the ancient, craggy surface of Tethys,
sighting the crater Telemachus with its prominent central peak.
The view is toward the north pole of Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665
miles across). Lit terrain seen here is on the moon's Saturn-facing side.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Oct. 29, 2006 at a distance of approximately
641,000 kilometers (398,000 miles) from Tethys and at a
Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 111 degrees. Image scale is 4
kilometers (2 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.