Tethys

Tethys — moon orbiting Saturn, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.

An icy ball split nearly pole-to-pole by a vast canyon.

Radius
531.1 km
Orbit
295k km from Saturn
Period
1.89 days
Feature
Ithaca Chasma — a canyon 2,000 km long

Seeing Tethys in real time

Cosmoscope puts Tethys at its true position in the solar system, computed from JPL-derived ephemeris and updated continuously. Open the live 3D view to see, in real time, how far Tethys is from the Sun and from Earth right now, how many minutes or hours light takes to cross that gap, and how fast it is moving along its orbit. Scrub the timeline to place Tethys where it was on any past date, or where it will be years from now.

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