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Penelope (additional process. by Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"The Cassini Spacecraft spies the large Penelope Crater on Tethys.
This view looks toward the Trailing Hemisphere of Tethys (approx. 1062 Km - or about 660 miles across). North on Tethys is up.
The image was taken with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 14, 2009 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of UltraViolet Light centered at 338 nanometers.
The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 256.000 Km (about 159.000 miles) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 1°.
Image scale is roughly 2 Km (about 1,25 mile) per pixel".
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