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Tethys (MULTISPECTRUM-2; credits: Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"The Cassini Spacecraft took a Southern view of the scarred face of icy Tethys. The moon's South Pole is at bottom center, just above the Terminator. To the left of the Pole, is Crater Melanthius, with its complex of central peaks poking upward into sunlight. On the limb at right, Ithaca Chasma extends Northward. The smoothness of the limb is interrupted at the 11 o'clock position by the rim of Crater Odysseus. A belt of darker terrain girdles the moon's Equator. (...)
Lit terrain seen here is on the Leading Hemisphere of Tethys (about 1062 Km or approx. 660 miles across). North is up, and rotated 9° to the right.
The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 10, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 477.000 Km (such as about 296.000 miles) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-Spacecraft angle of 44°.
Image scale is roughly 3 Km per pixel".
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