In this infrared view, cratered Tethys (1,062 kilometers, 660 miles across) shows a faint, dark band across its equatorial region. North is up in this view, which shows the leading hemisphere on Tethys. The image was taken with the narrow angle camera on March 11, 2005, through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 930 nanometers. The view was acquired from a distance of approximately 1.4 million kilometers (850,000 miles) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 80 degrees. Resolution in the original image was 8 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel. The image has been contrast-enhanced and magnified by a factor of two to aid visibility.

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