DEUTSCH: Diese Aufnahme zeigt, wie der Mond Tethys vor dem riesigen, goldfarbenen Saturn vorbeizieht. Die Ringe des Planeten sind als dünne, dunkle Linie in der oberen Bildhälfte erkennbar. Auf Tethys sind die Krater Odysseus (oben) und Melanthius (unten) auf der Saturnabgewandten Hemisphäre des Mondes sichtbar.
ENGLISH: Tethys (1,071 kilometers, 665 miles across) floats before the massive, golden-hued globe of Saturn in this natural color view. The thin, dark line of the rings curves around the horizon at top. Visible on Tethys are the craters Odysseus (top) and Melanthius (bottom). The view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Tethys. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this color view. Tethys is apparently darker than Saturn at these wavelenths. The edge of the planet appears fuzzy, which may indicate that we are seeing haze layers that are separated from the main cloud deck. The images were acquired by the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 3, 2005, at a distance of approximately 2.5 million kilometers (1.6 million miles) from Saturn. The image scale is 15 kilometers (9 miles) per pixel on Saturn and 13 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel on Tethys. |
