Skip Navigation
menu close modal

Resources

Cassini's Close Look at Tethys

closeup image of Tethys
Published: September 26, 2005

Cassini's weekend flyby of Saturn's moon Tethys is providing close-up views of the moon's speckled surface.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

ENLARGE

Related

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show Caparronia crater on asteroid Vesta.
More
Topography and Albedo Image of Caparronia Crater
Topography and Albedo Image of Caparronia Crater
This true color picture was assembled from Voyager 2 Saturn images obtained August 4, 1981 from a distance of 21 million kilometers (13 million miles) on the spacecraft's approach trajectory. T...
More
Saturn, Distant Moons
Saturn, Distant Moons
This Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) image, taken Oct. 24, 2012, at 11:06 a.m. UTC, shows a view of Saturn as it passes behind the sun, Cassini spacecraft in tow. Credit: SOHO - http:...
More
This Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) image, taken Oct. 24, 2012, at 11:06, UTC shows a view of Saturn as it passes behind the sun, Cassini spacecraft in tow.
Saturn Superior Conjunction
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an area in the interior of Yalode Crater on Ceres. Yalode is one of the largest impact basins on Ceres, with a diameter of 160 miles (260 kilometers).
More
Dawn LAMO Image 183
Dawn LAMO Image 183
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the potato-shaped asteroid in preparation for the visit by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in 2011. This is one frame from a movie showing the difference in brightness ...
More
A New Spin on Vesta
A New Spin on Vesta
The moon Prometheus and a bit of Saturn's northern hemisphere are both brilliantly lit by the sun here, making the A ring seem dim in comparison. The bright limb of Saturn's northern hemisphere ca...
More
Prometheus and Saturn's A ring
Bright Duo
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 1,400 feet (410 meters) per pixel, was take...
More
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 15
Dawn Survey Orbit Image 15
This Voyager 2 photograph of Titan, taken August 23, 1981 from a range of 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles), shows some detail in the cloud systems on this Saturnian moon. The southern hem...
More
Titan Clouds
Titan Clouds
This video describes Cassini measurements of high speed streams of tiny dust particles emanating from the vicinity of Saturn. It presents actual dust measurements and displays Cassini measurements ...
More
Saturn dust
Cosmic Messengers From Saturn
Moving Cassini for Testing
More
Moving Cassini for Testing
Moving Cassini for Testing
A star field in the constellation Cepheus is a composite of two 600-second exposures by the Framing Camera acquired during tests on December 3, 2007.
More
Star Field in the Constellation Cepheus
Star Field in the Constellation Cepheus
This single frame from a color movie of Jupiter from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows what it would look like to unpeel the entire globe of Jupiter, stretch it out on a wall into the form of a rec...
More
Full Jupiter Map
Full Jupiter Map
The far left image shows the bright-dark boundary region on Saturn's moon Iapetus at far-ultraviolet wavelengths, viewed by Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrograph on Sept. 10, 2007. These wa...
More
Three views of Iapetus
Two Ultraviolet Views of Iapetus
With fingers crossed and eyes wide open, sci-fi fans and scientists savor the joys of discovery...at Iapetus.
More
Video of scientists watching Iapetus data,
Backstage Pass to Iapetus (2007)
A Daimler-Benz Aerospace staff member inspects the heat shield of the Huygens probe after the shield was installed in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, in July 1...
More
Inspect Heatshield
Inspect Heatshield
Saturn's moon Hyperion's crater, Meri, blooms in this extreme color-enhanced view. Meri is overprinted by a couple of smaller craters and displays dark material on its floor that is characteristic ...
More
Color-enhanced view of Hyperion's crater Meri
Color Variation on Hyperion
This Cassini image shows Saturn's crater-covered moon Tethys as it slid silently along in its orbit while Saturn's delicate rings sliced the view in two. Tethys is 1,071 kilometers (665 miles) acr...
More
the moon Tethys
Hanging Half-Moon
Seven images capture the 2015 supermoon lunar eclipse. 
More
Seven images showing the shadow of Earth progressively covering more of the Moon until it is just a sliver in the sky.
Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Sequence (2015)
This view from NASA’s Dawn mission shows where ice has been detected in the northern wall of Ceres’ Juling Crater, which is in almost permanent shadow.
More
Ice on the northern wall of Ceres' Juling Crater
Juling Crater's shadow
The longest-lived continuously monitored electrical storm ever observed on Saturn continues to churn through the tempest-tossed region nicknamed "Storm Alley" because of its preponderance of storm ...
More
Saturn
Continuing Storm
The Cassini spacecraft is lowered to the top of its Titan IV/Centaur launch vehicle at Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Station. Cassini is a cooperative project of NASA, the European...
More
Lowered onto Titan
Lowered onto Titan
The Encke and Keeler gaps are visible in this image of the outer A ring. Brightness variations are clearly visible in the Encke ringlet. A density wave can be seen exterior to (to the left of) the...
More
Saturn's A ring
Fingerprints of the Moons
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a portion of the southern hemisphere of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image was taken on Sept. 20, 2015...
More
Dawn HAMO Image 40
Dawn HAMO Image 40
Two moons that have profound impacts on the rings, Mimas and Prometheus, are seen here with the F ring. Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across), the larger and much more distant of the moons, ...
More
Mimas and Prometheus with the F ring
Ring Shapers
This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 180 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped onto a computer-sim...
More
Radar image reveals Venus surface.
Computer Simulated Global View of Venus

You Might Also Like