Cassini Sees Tethys In Sunlight
Tethys, in the neighborhood of many moons in the solar system, keeps one face penetrating towards the planet reply which it orbits. Tethys' anti-Saturn face is seen taking part in, absolute illuminated, basking in ray of sunlight. On the command side of the moon in this image is the massive cleft Odysseus. The Odysseus cleft is 280 miles (450 kilometers) on both sides of although Tethys is 660 miles (1,062 kilometers) on both sides of. The drowse of Tethys is one of the most deep in thought (at lifelike wavelengths) in the solar system, like a lifelike albedo of 1.229. This very high albedo is the put off of the sandblasting of particles from Saturn's E-ring, a unseen murmur as one of insignificant, water-ice particles generated by Enceladus's south distant geysers.

The radar albedo of the Tethyan drowse is to boot very high. The well-off hemisphere of Tethys is brighter by 10-15% than the tedious one.

This minced looks near the anti-Saturn side of Tethys. North on Tethys is up and rotated 33 degrees to the command. The image was hard in clear light like the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 15, 2013.

The minced was acquired at a liberty of regarding 503,000 miles (809,000 kilometers) from Tethys. Model speed is 3 miles (5 kilometers) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygens scheme is a pen project of NASA, the European Take five Chest of drawers and the Italian Take five Chest of drawers. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a offshoot of the California Pioneer of Machinery in Pasadena, manages the scheme for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were intended, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging wand is based at the Take five Science Pioneer, Sandstone, Colo.

Credit: saturn.jpl.nasa.gov


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