Tethys View from Cassini

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Toward Melanthius
August 29, 2006

Cassini looks into the 245-kilometer (150-mile) wide crater Melanthius in this view of the southern terrain on Tethys. The crater possesses a prominent cluster of peaks in its center which are relics of its formation.


Deirdre Kelleghan
Saturn Observation Campaign
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Sometimes we forget real "scale" and think of Tethys as being "tiny".

It brings home to you how big it is,on a human scale, when you see the words "2,345 feet per pixel".

Thats about one thousand people, standing shoulder to shoulder, per pixel!