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Calypso

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Calypso was discovered on the 13th March, 1980, from ground-based observations, by Dan Pascu, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, William A. Baum, and Douglas G. Currie, and was provisionally designated S/1980 S 25 (the 25th satellite of Saturn discovered in 1980).
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This image of Calypso was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on the 13th February, 2010.
The image was taken using the CL1 and IR3 filters.

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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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This colour image provides the best look yet at Saturn's moon Calypso, a Trojan (trailing moon) of the larger moon Tethys. Calypso trails Tethys in its orbit by 60 degrees.

Telesto is the other Tethys Trojan, orbiting Saturn 60 degrees ahead of Tethys. Calypso is 22 kilometres across. Calypso, like many other small Saturnian moons and small asteroids,