Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Map of Tethys - December 2006
Original Caption Released with Image:
This global digital map of Saturn's moon Tethys was created using data taken by the Cassini spacecraft, with gaps in coverage filled in by NASA's Voyager spacecraft data. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 300 meters (980 feet) per pixel. Equidistant projections preserve distances on a body, with some distortion of area and direction.

The mean radius of Tethys used for projection of this map is 533 kilometers (331 miles). This map is an update to the version released in December 2005. See PIA07781.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Produced By:
Cassini Imaging Team
Mission:
Cassini
Spacecraft:
Cassini Orbiter
Target Name:
Tethys
Is a satellite of:
Saturn
Instrument:
Imaging Science Subsystem
Product Size:
12068 samples x 6408 lines
Primary Data Set:
Cassini
facet_what:
Moon
facet_what:
Voyager
facet_what:
Saturn
facet_what:
Tethys
facet_what:
Cassini
facet_what:
Cassini Orbiter
facet_what:
Huygens Probe
facet_what:
Cassini-Huygens
facet_what:
Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Saturn
facet_where:
Tethys
facet_where:
California
facet_where:
Washington
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_where:
Washington, D.C.
facet_when:
December 2005
facet_when:
December 2006
facet_when_year:
2005
facet_when_year:
2006
Image #:
PIA08345
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA08345
orignial url:

Map of Tethys - December 2006