Like a drop of dew hanging on a leaf, Saturn’s moon Tethys appears to be stuck to the planet’s A and F rings in this view from the Cassini probe.
Tethys (1,062 kilometres or 660 miles across), like the ring particles, is composed primarily of ice. The gap in the A ring through which Tethys is visible is the Keeler gap, which is kept clear by the small moon Daphnis (not visible here).
This view looks toward the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Tethys. North on Tethys is up and rotated 43 degrees to the right. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 14, 2014.
The view was acquired at a distance of approximately1.8 million kilometres (1.1 million miles) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 22 degrees. Image scale is 11 kilometres (7 miles) per pixel.
