Saturn has its own Death Star
That’s no moon.
NASA’s newly released image of Tethys, Saturn’s fifth-largest moon, could easily pass as the planet’s very own Death Star.
While NASA compared it to an eyeball, the angle of the Odysseus crater — the circular mark on the left — makes it resemble the Empire’s planet-destroying space station of “Star Wars” fame.
The Tethys-as-Death-Star shot was taken in November, about 228,000 miles from the icy moon’s surface, which is -305 degrees Fahrenheit.
The image was captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which was launched in 2004 in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, and has been orbiting Saturn since.