Tethys and the Rings

Original caption:"The dramatic Ithaca Chasma carves an enormous gash for more than 1000 Km (about 620 miles) across Saturn's moon Tethys. Stretching across the top of this view are the B and A-Rings, separated by the Cassini Division. Ithaca Chasma is on the moon's Saturn-facing Hemisphere. North on Tethys is up and rotated 15° to the left in this view.

This image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 24, 2005, at a distance of approx. 2,2 MKM (such as about 1,3 MMs) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft angle of 87°. The image scale is 13 Km (about 8 miles) per pixel".