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The "Face" of Tethys (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)
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Caption NASA:"Geologic faults among craters on Saturn's moon Tethys are depicted in this image captured during a Fly-By of the moon by NASA's Cassini Spacecraft on Aug. 14, 2010.
The brightly illuminated, prominent Impact Crater near the bottom middle of this image has been dissected by numerous parallel Faults that run diagonally across the image. The presence of the Faults that cut through the Crater and the movement of Surface Materials have made the Crater outline somewhat non-circular.
Near the center of the image, running diagonally from the left to right, is an old Graben, such as a "Linear Depression of the Terrain between two Faults".
Below these Faults and near the middle top of the image is a large ancient Impact Crater that is so highly overprinted by more recent Craters that it can barely be recognized.
On the left of the image, there are some horizontal lines that can be seen very faintly cutting across Craters. These lines are artifacts of missing data in the raw image that could not be eliminated through processing the image.
This view looks toward the Leading Hemisphere of Tethys. The view is centered on terrain at 59° North Latitude and 79° West Longitude.
The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 40.000 Km (such as about 25.000 miles) from Tethys and at a Phase Angle of 103°. Image scale is roughly 234 meters (767 feet) per pixel".
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