Tethys, one of Saturn’s larger icy moons, vaguely resembles an eyeball staring off into space in this view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The resemblance is due to the enormous crater, Odysseus, and ...

Cassini offers up this nice view of the craters Odysseus (top) and Melanthius (bottom) on Tethys. Melanthius appears to have an elongated mountain range, rather than a single central peak, at its ...

This view of Saturn’s moon Tethys shows the contrast between the more heavily cratered region near the top and the more lightly cratered (and presumably younger) plains toward the bottom part of the ...

Around the equator on its leading side, Tethys wears a band of slightly darker surface material. Cassini imaging scientists suspect that the darkened region may represent an area of less contaminated ...