Tethys is Saturn's fifth largest moon. Its irregular shape is 331 miles (533 kilometers) in mean radius, with dimensions 669 x 657 x 654 miles.

Like the other regular moons of Saturn, Tethys formed from the Saturnian sub-nebula—a disk of gas and dust that surrounded Saturn soon after its formation.

The largest moon, Titan, even has an atmosphere and is the only solar system moon to have one. More small moons were discovered by the Voyager probes when ...

Tethys is the ninth of Saturn's known moons. Tethys is composed almost entirely of water ice and is one of several icy worlds in orbit around Saturn.

17 февр. 2006 г. · ... Tethys (1071 kilometers, or 665 miles across) has no such protective layer, although even a thick blanket of atmosphere would have done ...

26 окт. 2015 г. · Like all other regular moons of Saturn, Tethys is believed to have formed from the Saturnian sub-nebula – a disk of gas and dust that ...

As any Outer Planet, Tethys will have a lot of moisture in its atmosphere. Because of this, fogs and clouds will be common. Probably the atmosphere will never ...

23 окт. 2015 г. · Like all other regular moons of Saturn, Tethys is believed to have formed from the Saturnian sub-nebula – a disk of gas and dust that ...

4 авг. 2015 г. · Nobody knows the source of mysterious red arcs of material crisscrossing the surface of Saturn's moon Tethys.