The huge Odysseus Crater disfigures the face of Saturn's moon Tethys.
The crater, in the top right of the image, is 450 kilometers, or 280
miles, across (see PIA07693 for more information). This view is centered
on terrain at 42 degrees south latitude, 108 degrees west longitude. The
south pole of Tethys lies on the terminator about a quarter of the way
inward from the bottom of the image.
Lit terrain seen here is on the leading hemisphere of Tethys (1062
kilometers, or 660 miles across). The image was taken in visible light
with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 24, 2009. The
view was obtained at a distance of approximately 933,000 kilometers
(580,000 miles) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase,
angle of 51 degrees. Image scale is 6 kilometers (4 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/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.