Tethys Enhanced
by Weston Westmoreland
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Tethys Enhanced
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
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The Real Death Star. Tethys, Enhanced.
If you ever wondered where Lucas got his inspiration for the Death Star, take a look...
Tethys is Saturn's fifth largest moon. Its irregular shape is 331 miles in mean radius. This cold, airless and heavily scarred body is very similar to sister moons Dione and Rhea except that Tethys is not as heavily cratered as the other two. This may be because its proximity to Saturn causes more tidal warming, and that warming kept Tethys partially molten longer, erasing or dulling more of the early terrain.
Tethys' density is 0.97 times that of liquid water, which suggests that Tethys is composed almost entirely of water ice plus a small amount of rock. And it should float in our seas...
Dominating the image, Odysseus Crater, 280 miles across, stretches across a large northern expanse on Saturn's moon Tethys.
Original image and text byNASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. Further image enhancements and post processing by Weston Westmoreland.
More Planetary & Deep Space Enhanced images at http://westonwestmoreland.com/collections/astronomy
You can learn more about what drives me in my blog:
http://inspiringthoughtsandimages.com/
Weston Westmoreland
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June 11th, 2018
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