These thermal images captured by the Cassini mission have spotted features shaped like the 1980s Pac-Man video game icon in the Saturn system, this time on the moon Tethys — the first was found on Mimas in 2010. The new pattern appears in thermal data obtained by Cassini’s composite infrared spectrometer, with warmer areas making up the Pac-Man shape.
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