Tethys And Pointed Rings

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Cassini captures Tethys floating above Saturn's razor-sharp ring plane. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2006
NASA's Cassini spacecraft transmitted this image from just beneath Saturn's ringplane on Feb. 12. The perspective gives the rings a pointed appearance and captures a few clumps at the edge of the narrow F ring.

The moon Tethys, 1,071 kilometers (665 miles) across, floats peacefully in the distance.

Cassini took the image in visible light with its narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 4.1 million kilometers (2.6 million miles) from Tethys, and the image scale on Tethys is 25 kilometers (16 miles) per pixel.

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