A cool way to get familiar with an unfamiliar moon.

in planes •  6 years ago  (edited)

Brandon Amaro created this cool animation of Tethys.

Tethys.gif
By Brandon Amaro - File:Tethys_map_June_2008_PIA08416.jpg, Public Domain, Link

It's one thing to see the entire moon mapped out like this:

Color map of Tethys PIA18439 Nov. 2014.jpg
By NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute / Lunar and Planetary Institute - http://www.ciclops.org/view/7965/Color-Maps-of-Tethys---November-2014 Other versions are available here: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18439 and here: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/icy_moons/saturn/tethys/, Public Domain, Link

But I think a rotating globe is so much cooler! Perhaps its because I grew up with globes of both the earth and moon in my house as a child.

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