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Hello there legends! Back in our journey through our solar system, this time dancing around Tethys, Saturn's fifth largest Moon, with the help of a DnB beat, some piano notes played from the heart, some deep basslines, a sub bass, some pads, and a breakbeat. I had a lot of fun these past few days working at it, I hope you girls and gents will like it. Much love, see you on our next stop! Written in E minor harmonic scale (174bpm).

"Tethys is Saturn's fifth largest moon. Its irregular shape is 331 miles (533 kilometers) in mean radius, with dimensions 669 x 657 x 654 miles (1076.8 x 1057.4 x 1052.6 kilometers). This cold, airless and heavily scarred body is very similar to sister moons Dione and Rhea except that Tethys is not as heavily cratered as the other two. This may be because its proximity to Saturn causes more tidal warming, and that warming kept Tethys partially molten longer, erasing or dulling more of the early terrain.

Tethys' density is 0.97 times that of liquid water, which suggests that Tethys is composed almost entirely of water ice plus a small amount of rock.

Tethys has a high reflectivity (or visual albedo) of 1.229 in the visual range, again suggesting a composition largely of water ice, which would behave like rock in the Tethyan average temperature of -305 degrees Fahrenheit (-187 degrees Celsius). Many of the crater floors on Tethys are bright, which also suggests an abundance of water ice. Also contributing to the high reflectivity is that Tethys is bombarded by Saturn E-ring water-ice particles generated by geysers on Enceladus.

Tethys appeared as a tiny dot to astronomers until the Voyager (1 and 2) encounters in 1980 and 1981. The Voyager images showed a major impact crater and a great chasm. The Cassini spacecraft has added details including a great variety of colors at small scales suggesting a variety of materials not seen elsewhere.

Orbit
Tethys orbits 183,000 miles (295,000 kilometers) from Saturn, taking 45.3 hours to circle the planet. As with all but two of the major Saturnian moons, Tethys is tidally locked in phase with its parent planet — the same side always faces toward Saturn.

Tethys has gravitationally locked two smaller moons into its own subsystem — Telesto and Calypso. These smaller moons are held in Lagrangian points (L4 and L5, respectively), where objects are stable with the larger controlling body. These three moons complete their orbits around Saturn moving as a unit, spaced out at 60-degree intervals first Telesto, then Tethys, followed by Calypso. The fact that Tethys and other Saturnian moons have such objects implies that their respective Lagrangian points have been stable against outside influences for millions of years.

Surface
The Tethyan northern hemisphere is lighter colored and heavily reworked from ages of bombardment. For instance, near the prominent peaked crater Telemachus (Odysseus' son in "The Odyssey") are the remnants of Teiresias Crater (named for a famous soothsayer of ancient Greece). The ancient Teiresias impact site is so badly overprinted and eroded by impact weathering and degradation that only a circular pattern of hummocks remains to indicate the old crater rim.

Closer to the equator, the terrain is darker and has fewer craters. This less-dense cratering suggests past internal activity and resurfacing of the terrain.

Around the equator on its leading side, Tethys wears a band of slightly darker surface material. Scientists suspect the darkened region may represent an area of less contaminated ice with differently sized grains than the material at higher latitudes on either side of the band."
( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/tethys/in-depth/  )

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Tethys

Meet EquilibriuM (Ilas Lucian), a passionate music producer from Timișoara, Romania, who is 35 years young. His love for music has been a lifelong journey, but he officially embarked on his production path six years ago in 2019. Through his art, he aims to spread positivity and good vibes, reaching out to as many beautiful souls as possible, hoping you resonate with that sentiment as you read this.

EquilibriuM specializes in liquid drum and bass, characterized by enchanting piano melodies and deep, immersive basslines. His musical journey is also a cosmic exploration, where each release symbolizes a stop in our solar system and beyond, capturing the essence of a planet, moon or even a comet along the way.

You can find his music on platforms like Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube, and Apple Music.
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