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A Journey to the End of Time

The Solar System in 3D, in real time

A simulation of the Solar System driven by real ephemerides. The Sun, the planets, Pluto and the major moons, space probes, the International Space Station, nearby stars and the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way are where they really are at the chosen moment. You can run time from 1700 to 2100, fly from one object to another and look at the sky from anywhere on Earth.

Tethys

Moon of Saturn

Facts

Mean diameter
1062 km
Mean distance from the planet
295,000 km
Orbital period
1.89 days
Discovery
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, 1684

Tethys is a moon of Saturn made almost entirely of water ice, with little rock: its density is 0.97 times that of water. It is named after a Titaness, a daughter of Uranus and Gaia.

Odysseus crater is 400 km wide and the canyon Ithaca Chasma is about 2000 km long. Two smaller moons, Telesto and Calypso, travel along its orbit.

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