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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-08-20 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Tethys disappearing behind Titan as observed by Cassini on Nov. 26, 2009. Tethys is about 660 miles (1,070 kilometers) across.
PIA22648:
Tête-à-tête
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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On Aug. 17, 2015, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Odysseus crater with its ring of steep cliffs and the mountains that rise at its center, the most visually striking feature on Saturn's icy moon, Tethys.
PIA21613:
Mighty Odysseus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's rings cast dark bands across cloud tops in the northern hemisphere. Near the pole, an elongated shadow can be seen from Saturn's moon Tethys. Icy moons Dione (front right) and Enceladus (back right) are also seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18320:
A Stage for Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-21 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini gazes across the icy rings of Saturn toward the icy moon Tethys, whose night side is illuminated by Saturnshine, or sunlight reflected by the planet.
PIA21342:
Saturn-lit Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-24 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the low angle of the sun over Tethys' massive canyon, Ithaca Chasma (near the terminator, at right), highlights the contours of this enormous rift.
PIA20527:
Dark Chasm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-01-23 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Tethys, one of Saturn's larger icy moons, vaguely resembles an eyeball staring off into space in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The resemblance is due to the enormous crater, Odysseus, and its complex of central peaks.
PIA20518:
Here's Looking at You, Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-08-15 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moons Tethys and Hyperion appear to be near neighbors in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, even though they are actually 930,000 miles apart here. Tethys is the larger body on the left.
PIA20493:
Distant Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-07-11 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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An illusion of perspective, Saturn's moon Tethys seems to hang above the planet's north pole in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20488:
Tethys Tops Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-07 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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he view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the anti-Saturn sides of Tethys and Rhea. North on both moons is up. Rhea and Tethys are medium-sized moons that are large enough to have pulled themselves into round shapes.
PIA18363:
The Saturnian Sisters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-02-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Two of Saturn's moons, Tethys and the much smaller Janus, are captured in this photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18356:
Different Worlds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-02-22 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Three of Saturn's moons, Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas, are captured in this group photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18357:
Three Times the Fun
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-02-08 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Tethys appears to float between two sets of rings in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but it's just a trick of geometry. The rings, which are seen nearly edge-on, are the dark bands above Tethys.
PIA18355:
Ices and Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-01-18 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moons, like Janus, irregularly shaped bodies, and Tethys, spherically shaped, demonstrate the main difference between small moons and large ones. It's all about the moon's shape.
PIA18353:
Janus and Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-01-11 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn, around 10 times the diameter of Earth, dwarfs it retinue of moons. Tethys is seen here at lower right.
PIA18350:
Saturn the Mighty
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-21 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Enceladus dramatically displays the contrast between its older and newer terrain as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Enceladus. North on Enceladus is up and rotated 36 degrees to the right.
PIA18347:
Enceladus, Old and New
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-14 Enceladus Cassini-Huygens
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Like a cosmic bull's-eye, Enceladus and Tethys line up almost perfectly for NASA's Cassini. Since they are also at relatively similar distances from the spacecraft, their apparent sizes in this image are a good approximation of their relative sizes.
PIA18349:
Bull's-eye Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Tethys, dwarfed by the scale of Saturn and its rings, appears as an elegant crescent in this image taken by NASA's Cassini Spacecraft. Views like this are impossible from Earth, where we only see Saturn's moons as (more or less) fully illuminated disks.
PIA18348:
Crescent Tethys and Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-14 Tethys ISS - Wide Angle
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The night sides of Saturn and Tethys are dark places indeed. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows shadows are darker areas than sunlit areas, and in space, with no air to scatter the light, shadows can appear almost totally black.
PIA18333:
From the Night Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-08-03 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Thanks to the illumination angle, Mimas (right) and Dione (left) appear to be staring up at a giant Saturn looming in the background as captured in this image by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18331:
Looking Up to the Giant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This enhanced-color mosaic of Saturn's icy moon Tethys shows a range of features on the moon's trailing hemisphere. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was constructed from 52 images from its narrow-angle camera on April 11, 2015.
PIA19638:
The Colors of Tethys II
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Unusual arc-shaped, reddish streaks cut across the surface of Saturn's ice-rich moon Tethys in this enhanced-color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA19637:
Red Arcs on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This enhanced-color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's icy moon Tethys shows a range of features on the moon's trailing hemisphere.
PIA19636:
The Colors of Tethys I
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-27 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The giant impact basin Odysseus on Saturn's moon Tethys stands out brightly from the rest of the illuminated icy crescent as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18329:
Bright Basin on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-20 Dione Cassini-Huygens
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In Greek mythology, Dione was the daughter of Tethys. Scientists believe that they formed out of the same disk around an early Saturn. NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees the two eponymous moons together.
PIA18325:
Mother and Daughter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-15 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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In this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, two large craters on Tethys, near the line where day fades to night, almost resemble two giant eyes observing Saturn. Tethys is significantly closer to the camera, while the planet is in the background.
PIA18318:
Tethys 'Eyes' Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-08 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Like most moons in the solar system, Tethys is covered by impact craters. Some craters bear witness to incredibly violent events, such as the crater Odysseus (seen here at the right of this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft).
PIA18317:
Tethys the Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-15 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini orbiter shows that Tethys appears to be peeking out from behind Rhea, watching the watcher. Scientists believe that Tethys' surprisingly high albedo is due to the water ice jets emerging from its neighbor, Enceladus.
PIA18293:
Tethys the Spy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-24 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini orbiter shows Saturn is circled by its rings (nearly edge-on in this image), as well as by the moons Tethys (the large bright body near the lower right corner) and Mimas (seen as a slight crescent against Saturn's disk above the rings).
PIA18288:
Circling Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This set of global, color mosaics of Saturn's moon Tethys was produced from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its first ten years exploring the Saturn system.
PIA18439:
Color Maps of Tethys - 2014
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-20 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The moons visible in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Pandora and Atlas, are quite small by astronomical standards, but the rings are also enormous. From one side of the planet to the other, the A ring stretches over 170,000 miles (270,000 km).
PIA18279:
Mini Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-13 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Like a drop of dew hanging on a leaf, Tethys appears to be stuck to the A and F rings from this perspective of NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18284:
Stuck on the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-22 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a rare family photo of three of Saturn's moons that couldn't be more different from each other. Shown here are Tethys (center), Hyperion (upper left), and Prometheus (lower left).
PIA18283:
The Odd Trio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-28 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Tethys, like many moons in the solar system, keeps one face pointed towards the planet around which it orbits. Tethys' anti-Saturn face is seen here, fully illuminated, basking in sunlight.
PIA18275:
Tethys in Sunlight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-05-19 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Tethys' trailing side shows two terrains that tell a story of a rough past. To the north (up, in image) is older, rougher terrain, while to the south is new material dubbed 'smooth plains' by scientists. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA17164:
Tethys' Terrains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Tethys, telling the story of a violent history marked by impacts. Seen here are the craters Melanthius (near the center), Dolius (above Melanthius), and Penelope (upper left almost over the limb).
PIA17138:
Melanthius at Dusk
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-12-18 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn, taken while the spacecraft was in Saturn's shadow. The cameras were turned toward Saturn and the sun so that the planet and rings are backlit.
PIA14934:
A Splendor Seldom Seen
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-12-03 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Although Mimas holds the unofficial designation of 'Death Star moon,' Tethys is seen here also vaguely resembling the space station from Star Wars. Apparently, Tethys doesn't want Mimas to have all the fun!
PIA14637:
Another Death Star?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-26 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted two features shaped like the 1980s video game icon 'Pac-Man' on moons of Saturn. One was observed on the moon Mimas in 2010 and the latest was observed on the moon Tethys.
PIA16198:
A Pair of 'Pac-Men'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-26 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Tethys may not be tiny by normal standards, but when it is captured alongside Saturn, it can't help but seem pretty small in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14636:
Tiny Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-14 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The southern hemisphere of Tethys is seen in this polar stereographic map, mosaicked from the best-available images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14933:
Tethys South Polar Map - June 2012
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-14 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The northern hemisphere of Tethys is seen in this polar stereographic map, mosaicked from the best-available images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14932:
Tethys North Polar Map - June 2012
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-14 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This global map of Saturn's moon Tethys was created using images taken during flybys of NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14931:
Map of Tethys - June 2012
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-20 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes a detailed look at the northern part of the huge Odysseus Crater on Saturn's moon Tethys. The crater dominates the left half of this view of Tethys.
PIA14622:
Northern Odysseus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-25 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Compared to the gas giant, the two moons shown on either side of Saturn seem particularly small in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Tethys and Pandora are also present but barely visible.
PIA14614:
Enormous Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes a close look at a row of craters on Saturn's moon Tethys during the spacecraft's April 14, 2012, flyby of the moon. Three large craters are visible along the terminator between day and night on Tethys.
PIA14611:
Line of Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-21 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Even in a peaceful looking scene such as this one of Saturn and its moon Tethys, NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals clues about how Saturn is ever-changing; scars are seen here of the huge storm that raged through much of 2011.
PIA14609:
Serene Scene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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The line of Saturn's rings disrupts NASA's Cassini spacecraft's view of the moons Tethys and Titan. Larger Titan is on the left. Tethys is near the center of the image.
PIA14591:
Welcome Disruption
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-02 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Tethys orbits in front of the wide shadows cast by the rings onto the planet for this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Tethys appears just below the rings near the center of the image.
PIA14589:
Before Wide Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-22 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Tethys, with its stark white icy surface, peeps out from behind the larger, hazy, colorful Titan in this view of the two moons obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's rings lie between the two.
PIA14911:
Haze Before Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Tethys shows off its tortured surface in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. At top left of image is huge Odysseus Crater. At bottom right is Ithaca Chasma, a series of scarps that runs north-south across the moon.
PIA14581:
Scarred Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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A pair of Saturn's moons appears as if hung below the planet's rings in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Enceladus appears just below the rings here, near center, Tethys is near bottom center, and Tethys is closer to Cassini than is Enceladus.
PIA14577:
Pendent Pair
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-08 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft views the cratered surface of Saturn's moon Tethys in front of the hazy orb of the planet's largest moon, Titan. Tethys is much closer than Titan to Cassini.
PIA12778:
Craters Before Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-23 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Five moons, dominated by Rhea in the foreground, share NASA's Cassini spacecraft view with Saturn's rings seen nearly edge-on. Also seen here are Dione, Epimetheus, Prometheus, and Tethys.
PIA12767:
Five Orbs
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Shadows cast by Saturn's rings darken the southern hemisphere of the planet and give a truncated appearance to the bottom of this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12763:
Cut Off by Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-20 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft watches a pair of Saturn's moons, showing the hazy orb of giant Titan beyond smaller Tethys. In the foreground of the image, Ithaca Chasma can be seen running roughly north-south on Tethys.
PIA12745:
Titan and Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-14 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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These two views of Tethys show the high-resolution color (left) and the topography (right) of the leading, or forward-facing, hemisphere of this ice-rich satellite. Data for these images is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA13701:
A New View of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Geologic faults among craters on Saturn's moon Tethys are depicted in this image captured during a flyby of the moon by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 14, 2010.
PIA12802:
Geology on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Tethys is seen in this updated polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12799:
Tethys Polar Maps - August 2010
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Tethys is seen in this updated polar stereographic map, mosaicked from the best-available images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12798:
Tethys Polar Maps - August 2010
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-11-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This updated global map of Saturn's moon Tethys was created using images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11673:
Map of Tethys - August 2010
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-07 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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This set of enhanced-color maps made from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's moons Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione and Rhea.
PIA13423:
Enhanced-Color Maps of Saturn Inner Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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Four of Saturn's moons join the planet for a well balanced portrait. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is in the lower left. Tethys appears in upper right. The smaller moons Pandora and Epimetheus are barely visible here.
PIA12718:
Quartet and Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Terrain on Saturn's moon Tethys, defined with craters, is shown in front of the hazy atmosphere of the larger moon Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing sides of Titan and Tethys.
PIA12709:
Tethys Before Titan
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Bright spokes can be seen on Saturn's B ring just in front of the shadow cast on the rings on the night side of the planet in this NASA Cassini spacecraft image.
PIA12694:
Spokes Before Night
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Looking up toward Saturn's southern hemisphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft pictures a pair of the planet's moons orbiting in the distance. Tethys and Rhea orbit in the plane of the planet's rings, but appear to be below the planet in this view.
PIA12689:
Beyond Saturn's South
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Sunlight illuminates the deep cut of Ithaca Chasma on Saturn's moon Tethys. Ithaca Chasma runs roughly north-south for more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) on Tethys in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12686:
Chasma Crescent
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward an area between the trailing hemisphere and anti-Saturn side of Tethys and spies the large crater Melanthius near the moon's south pole.
PIA12676:
Melanthius on Tethys
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Saturn's moon Dione, in the foreground of this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, appears darker than the moon Tethys. Tethys appears brighter because it has a higher albedo than Dione, meaning Tethys reflects more sunlight.
PIA12666:
Tethys and Darker Dione
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The moon Tethys occupies the right foreground of this Saturnian scene. This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Tethys and toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.
PIA12651:
Tethys in the Fore
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An illuminated quarter of the moon Tethys is imaged near a swath of Saturn's rings. Though the moon appears to be hanging directly below the rings, Tethys is actually farther from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, and the rings are in the foreground.
PIA12649:
Rings and Quarter Tethys
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Tethys' huge Odysseus Crater is brightly lit in the northern latitudes of this Saturnian moon in this NASA Cassini spacecraft view. The crater is seen almost edge-on in the upper left of the image.
PIA12644:
Odysseus in Profile
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The rings split the planet in two in this NASA Cassini spacecraft view of a crescent Saturn. Saturn's moon Tethys is the small dot on the left of the image, below the rings.
PIA12639:
Bisected Crescent
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A huge impact created Odysseus Crater, which covers a large part of Saturn's moon Tethys in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12628:
Big Ding on Tethys
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Saturn's moon Dione passes by the moon Tethys in this NASA Cassini spacecraft depiction of a 'mutual event' in which one moon passes close to or in front of another moon.
PIA12624:
Dione Sliding By Tethys
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft profiles several features oriented north-south on Saturn's moon Tethys. A line of craters runs north to south near the center of the image: (from top) Phemius, Polyphemus, Ajax and the large southern crater Antinous.
PIA12611:
Up and Down Tethys
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's February 2010 encounter with Calypso yielded this incredibly detailed view of this Trojan moon. Irregularly shaped Calypso is one of two Trojan moons of the larger moon Tethys.
PIA12598:
Calypso Close Up
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Odysseus Crater, with a size of epic proportions, stretches across a large northern expanse on Saturn's moon Tethys in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12588:
Epic Odysseus
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A crescent of Tethys displays two of the moon's large craters in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Penelope Crater can be seen at the top left. Antinous Crater is in the bottom left.
PIA12581:
Greek Drama
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This global map of Saturn's moon Tethys was created using images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's flybys.
PIA12560:
Map of Tethys - February 2010
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The northern and southern hemispheres of Saturn's moon Tethys are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11699:
Tethys Polar Maps - February 2010
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The northern and southern hemispheres of Saturn's moon Tethys are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11698:
Tethys Polar Maps - February 2010
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Saturn shares its space with its moon Tethys in this scene captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Tethys can be seen above the rings near the middle of the image. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.
PIA12544:
Satellite Companionship
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The moon Tethys stands out as a tiny crescent of light in front of the dark of Saturn's night side. Tethys can be seen above the ringplane on the far right of this NASA Cassini spacecraft image.
PIA12536:
Dwarfed Crescent
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From NASA's Cassini spacecraft's perspective, Saturn's moon Dione passes in front of the moon Tethys in this mutual event.
PIA12534:
Passing Tethys
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Saturn's moon Tethys with its prominent Odysseus Crater silently slips behind Saturn's largest moon Titan and then emerges on the other side in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12528:
Tethys Slips Behind Titan
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The moon Enceladus passes behind the larger moon Tethys, as seen in this pair of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image on the left was taken a little more than a minute before the image on the right.
PIA12523:
Enceladus Behind Tethys
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The moon Tethys is upstaged by two smaller moons, Pandora and Prometheus, in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Go to the Photojournal to view the animation.
PIA11691:
Moons in Motion Animation Icon
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the large Penelope crater on Saturn's moon Tethys. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11624:
Spotlight on Penelope
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NASA's Cassini Orbiter peers toward the distant, icy plains of Saturn's moon Tethys. The planet's A and F rings slice across the top of this view.
PIA12319:
Cold Light from Afar
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Looking cool and serene, Saturn shares its soft glow with NASA's Cassini Orbiter. Also seen are Saturn's ring and its icy moon Tethys.
PIA12318:
World of Clouds and Ice
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A pair of Saturn's moons, Dione and Tethys, accompany the planet and its rings in this image taken shortly after the planet's August 2009 equinox by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11593:
Saturnscape After Equinox
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down on the north of Tethys and sees brightly illuminated Penelope Crater on the trailing hemisphere of the moon in this image taken on July 27, 2009.
PIA11591:
Bright Penelope
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Just before Saturn's August 2009 equinox, Dione joined other Saturnian moons in casting shadows on the planet's main rings as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11578:
Dione's Ring Shadow Premiere
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The Odysseus Crater sprawls across the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Tethys as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11572:
Tethys' Northern Crater
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Saturn's moon Tethys casts a shadow on the planet's A ring alongside the larger shadow cast by the planet itself in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken as Saturn approached its August 2009 equinox.
PIA11564:
Shadows Big and Small
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The shadow of Saturn's icy moon Tethys cuts across the C ring in this image taken as Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11555:
Cutting 'Cross the C Ring
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The moon Tethys casts its shadow on Saturn's rings next to the shadow of the planet in this image taken as Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox. This image is from as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11554:
Side by Side Shadows
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Appearing like an iris of a human eye, the huge Odysseus Crater dominates the sphere of Saturn's moon Tethys as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11552:
Eye on Tethys
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The shadow of Saturn's icy moon Tethys is cast onto Saturn's A ring, almost blanketing the Enke Gap. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11539:
Engulfing a Gap
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The shadow of the moon Tethys stretches across Saturn's A ring before fading into the B ring as the shadow extends towards the lower right of this as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA11525:
Long Shadow of Tethys
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