A Cratered Crescent Composition

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The crescent of Saturn’s moon Tethys hovers serenely over a dimly-lit ringplane in this raw image, taken by the Cassini orbiter on October 11, 2009.

Frigid, airless and heavily-cratered, Tethys is mostly composed of water ice and rock. It is 662 miles wide.

Image: NASA/JPL/SSI

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