Distant moons

Saturn's moons Tethys and Hyperion appear to be near neighbours in this Cassini view, even though they are actually 1.5 million kilometres apart here. Tethys is the larger body on the left.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on 15 August 2015. Image scale is 7.0 kilometres per pixel.

The Cassini Solstice Mission is a joint United States and European endeavor. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.