Check This Out!
This is a photograph of Tethys (pronounced ‘TEE-this’), one of the moons of Saturn, taken by the Cassini probe. Cool, huh?
As “Bad Astronomer” Phil Platt said: “How forbidding and lovely!”
To find out more about Tethys, check out these links:
Bad Astronomy: A Billion km ice mountain against the black!
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/tethys.htm
Oh wow, that is very cool! It’s so clear, it could be of our moon.
Amazing—but kind of makes you feel a little chilly, too …