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Melanthius Crater (detail mgnf)
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Caption NASA:"Cassini looks into the 245-Km (150-mile) wide crater Melanthius in this view of the Southern Terrain on Tethys. The crater possesses a prominent cluster of peaks in its center which are relics of its formation.
Notable here is a distinct boundary in crater abundance -- the cratering density is much higher in the farthest Western Terrain (left side of the image) than elsewhere.
North on Tethys is up and rotated 45 to the left.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 23, 2006 at a distance of approx. 120.000 Km (such as about 75.000 miles) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 29.
Image scale is roughly 715 mt (such as about 2,345 feet) per pixel".
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