Like a half-full moon, cratered Tethys hangs before the Cassini spacecraft in this narrow angle camera view taken on July 3, 2004. Voyager images showed a large fracture on Tethys about 750 kilometers ...

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 ...

This image was taken on September 24, 2005 and received on Earth September 25, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Tethys at approximately 1,625 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 ...

Although Tethys and Janus both orbit Saturn and are both made of more or less the same materials, they are very different worlds. Their contrasts are related, in large part, to their sizes. Tethys ...

Like graffiti sprayed by an unknown artist, unexplained arc-shaped, reddish streaks are visible on the surface of Saturn’s icy moon Tethys in new enhanced-color images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.

Cassini offers up this nice view of the craters Odysseus (top) and Melanthius (bottom) on Tethys. Melanthius appears to have an elongated mountain range, rather than a single central peak, at its ...

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. Cassini gazes across the icy rings of ...