Tethys the Spy: Saturn's moon Tethys appears to be peeking out from behind Rhea, watching the watcher.
Scientists believe that Tethys' surprisingly high albedo is due to the water ice jets emerging from its neighbor, Enceladus. The fresh water ice becomes the E ring and can eventually arrive at Tethys, giving it a fresh surface layer of clean ice. Lit terrain seen here is on the anti-Saturn side of moon Rhea. North on Rhea is up. The image was taken in red light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 20, 2012.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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