Enceladus the tiny moon spoon and the big spoon Tethys seems to be lining up almost perfectly just over the distinctive rings of Saturn from the perspective of Cassini spacecraft exploring the ringed planet in September 2015.

NASA said that the picture was taken by Cassini when the craft was nearly 1.3 million miles from Enceladus and at a distance of 1.6 million miles from Tethys. Tethys and Enceladus are the two most fascinating and mysterious moons of the Saturn.

An icy world Enceladus has a global subsurface ocean. The moon’s icy shell cracks at its south pole, which allows water particles from the ocean to spew out into space leading to the creation of another ring of particles surrounding Saturn.

Scientists are specially keen to look at Enceladus as a probable loacation that might play home to microbial life in the solar system. Recently, the craft flew via icy plume of Enceladus in an attempt to detect more about the composition of the subsurface ocean and its likely habitability. Analysis of the results of that flyby is still in process by researchers.

Tethys is nearly 660 miles across. It is a cratered body with some strange streaks of reddish material on its surface.

In a statement, Paul Helfenstein, Cassini imaging scientist said that the red arcs should be geologically young as they cut across older features such as impact craters. Paul Helfenstein added, “But we don't know their age in years. If the stain is only a thin, colored veneer on icy soil, exposure to space environment at Tethys' surface might erase them on relatively short time scales”.