Tethys
moon of Saturn · almost pure ice
8.64 AU from Earth
A moon 1,062 km across made almost entirely of water ice: its density, 0.98 g/cm³, is just under water's. Ithaca Chasma, a canyon up to 100 km wide and about 3 km deep, runs some 2,000 km across it, and the crater Odysseus is 445 km wide, more than two fifths of the moon's width.
- 1,062 km across · density 0.98 g/cm³, nearly pure ice
- the dark band on the side it leads with comes from fast electrons in Saturn's magnetic field
Numbers that change with time are from 10 November 2026.
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- place in the Solar System · moon or small world
- distance
- 294,619 km from Saturn
- size
- 1,060 km across
- orbits
- Saturn