The Odysseus Crater dominates this view of Saturn's moon Tethys.
The impact basin stretches 450 kilometers, or 280 miles, across Tethys
which is itself 1,062 kilometers, or 660 miles, across. See PIA07693 to
learn more.
Lit terrain seen here is on the leading hemisphere of Tethys. This view
looks toward the moon's north pole which lies on the terminator above the
crater in this image. The image was taken in visible light with the
Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 14, 2009. The view was
obtained at a distance of approximately 1.3 million kilometers (808,000
miles) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 60
degrees. Image scale is 8 kilometers (5 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.