The blob of light seen here is Telesto (25 kilometers, 16 miles across), which shares its orbital path with much larger Tethys. Although this view may hint at a flattened, potato-like shape for Telesto (a common shape for Saturn’s smaller moons), no features on the moon’s surface can be resolved here. The image was taken in visible green light with the narrow angle camera on Aug. 1, 2005, from a distance of approximately 768,000 kilometers (477,000 miles) from Telesto and at a Sun-Telesto-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 37 degrees degrees. Resolution in the original image was 5 kilometers (3 miles) per pixel. The image has been contrast-enhanced and magnified by a factor of four to aid visibility.

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