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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 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 2016-02-29 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 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 2015-07-29 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 2015-06-15 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 2014-05-19 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 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 2010-05-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-17 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The Odysseus Crater dominates this view of Saturn's moon Tethys in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on May 14, 2009.
PIA11516:
Broad Impact on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-02-03 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Ithaca Chasma, an enormous rift that stretches from north to south across the face of Tethys, seemingly takes a bite out of the moon's limb in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Dec. 9, 2008.
PIA10570:
A Bite Out of the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-19 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Tethys' dark equatorial band is seen in natural color on the moon's leading hemisphere. The largest impact basin on Saturn's moon Tethys, Odysseus, appears on the left in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 27, 2008.
PIA10538:
Tethys' Subtle Hues
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-02 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Powerful forces ripped apart the surface of Saturn's moon Tethys at some time in the deep past, creating the incredible canyon system of Ithaca Chasma. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 28, 2008.
PIA10460:
Ancient Rift
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-08 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's icy moon Tethys sports an enormous impact basin, Odysseus. The impact basin is 280-miles wide and contains a central complex of mountains. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA10420:
Odysseus the Great
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-16 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The enormous impact basin Odysseus sits on the eastern limb of Saturn's icy moon Tethys. This image was taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on April 14, 2008.
PIA09903:
Impact on the Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-11 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down onto high northern latitudes on Tethys, spying the enormous impact basin Odysseus. Lit terrain seen here is on the anti-Saturn side of Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across).
PIA09878:
Odysseus in the Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-12 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This view of Saturn's moon Tethys displays three of the moon's most notable surface features. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 14, 2008.
PIA09835:
The Triad of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-15 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The vast expanse of the crater Odysseus spreads out below NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this mosaic view of Saturn's moon Tethys. Tethys is 1,071 kilometers (665 miles) across.
PIA08400:
The Crown of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-09-07 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies four large impact basins on the southern hemisphere of icy Tethys. Tethys, like the other airless worlds of the Solar System, wears the record of countless impacts experienced over the eons.
PIA09723:
History on Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-30 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides a stunning view of the Odysseus impact basin on Tethys. The enormous basin is 450 kilometers (280 miles) wide.
PIA09017:
Magnificent Scars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-02 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Ithaca Chasma rips across Saturn's moon Tethys from north to south near the center of this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The moon's western limb is flattened, indicating the rim of the giant impact basin Odysseus.
PIA08974:
Band Becomes Bright
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-21 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft surveys the battered surface of Saturn's icy moon Tethys. The great impact basin straddling the terminator is itself overprinted by many smaller impact sites.
PIA08967:
All Craters Great and Small
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-09 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is of the Odysseus impact basin which lies between night and day on Saturn's moon Tethys.
PIA08913:
Odysseus Into the Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-28 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft stares directly into the great Odysseus impact basin on Tethys. Peaks near the crater's center cast long shadows toward the east. The elevated eastern rim of the crater catches sunlight.
PIA08884:
Odysseus Out of Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-06 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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These side-by-side natural color and false-color views show cratered terrain on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Tethys -- the side that always faces away from Saturn.
PIA08870:
Odysseus on the Edge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-19 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Tethys has a crater-saturated surface, where older, larger basins have been completely overprinted by newer, smaller impacts. This view was captured in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA08291:
Target: Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-25 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Quiet and cold, a crescent Tethys floats above the nearly edge-on rings of Saturn. The only surface features visible to NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Tethys from this distance are a few impact craters.
PIA08185:
Cratered Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This dramatic close-up from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Tethys shows the large crater Penelope lying near center, overprinted by many smaller, younger impact sites.
PIA08149:
Penelope Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-17 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's moon Tethys and its great crater Odysseus, while at the same time capturing veiled Titan in the distance (at left).
PIA07705:
Tethys and Titan
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-02 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Plunging cliffs and towering mountains characterize the gigantic impact structure called Odysseus on Saturn's moon Tethys. The great impact basin lies before NASA's Cassini spacecraft in one of the best views yet obtained.
PIA07693:
The Great Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-23 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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With the icy rings between them, Dione and Tethys each show off the prominent features for which they are known. Dione displays wispy fractures that adorn its trailing side. Tethys, closest to NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows its impact basin Odysseus.
PIA07659:
Children of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-10 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This excellent grouping of three moons Dione, Tethys and Pandora near the rings provides a sampling of the diversity of worlds that exists in Saturn's realm. This image was taken in visible blue light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07628:
Satellite Trio
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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With this full-disk mosaic, NASA's Cassini presented the best view yet of the south pole of Saturn's moon Tethys, taken on Sept. 24, 2005. The giant rift Ithaca Chasma cuts across the disk.
PIA07738:
Tethys in Full View
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The northern polar region of Saturn's moon Tethys seen in this NASA Cassini flyby image is a ponderously ancient surface. Above the prominent peaked crater Telemachus are the remnants of a very old crater named Teiresias.
PIA07735:
Old Northern Terrains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This view of the surface of Saturn's moon Tethys, taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's close approach to the moon on Sept. 24, 2005, reveals an icy land of steep cliffs.
PIA07734:
Steep Scarps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-19 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The profile of the 450-kilometer-wide (280-mile) crater Odysseus makes this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft look as if someone sliced off a chunk of Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across).
PIA07589:
Profile of Odysseus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-24 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Tethys displays its distinctive dark equatorial band here, along with two sizeable impact craters in the west. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on July 10, 2005.
PIA07571:
With the Band
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-04 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This richly textured look at Saturn's moon Tethys from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the huge crater Odysseus and its central mountain in relief, as well as many smaller impact sites.
PIA07557:
Texture of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-06 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Tethys, named for a sea goddess, shows off two of its more puzzling features in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Ithaca Chasma, near lower right, stretches for more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) across the moon's surface.
PIA07536:
Tethys Mysteries
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-05 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's icy moon Tethys displays a very old impact basin here, just southeast of its giant canyon system, Ithaca Chasma. This image was taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on May 20, 2005.
PIA07535:
Icy Scars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-09 Titan Cassini-Huygens
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Three very different worlds crowd the frame in this unique view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which although partly overexposed, provides a splendid look at several major targets of interest for the mission.
PIA07518:
One View, Multiple Worlds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-16 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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Two large impact basins, including the 450-kilometer-wide Odysseus basin, mark the face of Saturn's moon Tethys, as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06649:
Tethys and Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-12 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
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Saturn's moon Dione occults part of Saturn's distant rings while Tethys hovers below, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06647:
Pair to Compare
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-26 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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The eastern rim of the large crater Odysseus is visible along the terminator in this image of Saturn's moon Tethys, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA06571:
Dawn for Odysseus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-17 Tethys Cassini-Huygens
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This dazzling view of Tethys from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the tremendous rift called Ithaca Chasma, which is 100 kilometers (60 miles) wide in places, and runs nearly three-fourths of the way around the icy moon.
PIA06558:
Tethys' Great Rift
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 Tethys Voyager
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The Saturn satellite Tethys was viewed by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25 from a distance of 1 million kilometers (620,000 mi.).
PIA02276:
Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-16 Tethys Voyager
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The heavily cratered surface of Tethys was photographed at l:35 a.m. PST on November 12 from a distance of l.2 million kilometers (750,000 miles) NASA's by Voyager l.
PIA01974:
Cratered Surface of Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-11 Tethys Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this view of Saturn's moon Tethys on Aug.25, 1981, from a distance of 540,000 kilometers (335,000 miles). It shows the numerous impact craters and fault valleys of a very ancient surface.
PIA01399:
Saturn's Moon Tethys
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-06 Tethys Voyager
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This series of pictures from NASA's Voyager 2 of Tethys shows its distinctive large crater as it rotates toward the termination and limb of this satellite of Saturn. These images were obtained at four-hour intervals beginning late Aug. 24, 1980.
PIA01385:
Pictures of Tethys' Large Crater
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