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This natural colour photograph shows Saturn’s moon Tethys going past the planet’s huge globe with the thin line of rings curving at the horizon. The craters Odysseus (top) and Melanthius (bottom) are also visible on Tethys surface. This image was captured at a distance of approximately 2.5 million kilometers (1.6 million miles) from Saturn by the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 3, 2005.

Cassini took this image of two of Saturn’s moons, Dione and Tethys, perched together near the planet’s rings. Dione is the upper moon in the picture, and occults part of Saturn’s rings. This image shows the contrast between the moons: Dione looks much smoother than Tethys’ crater battered surface. The photo was taken on March 19, 2005, when Cassini was approximately 2.7 million km (1.7 million miles) from Saturn.