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Focus on Enceladus
PIA 10485
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Ring shadows line the face of distant Saturn, providing an exquisite backdrop for the brilliant, white sphere of Enceladus. This icy moon, with its heavily modified surface and towering plume of icy material, is a target of intense study for Cassini during its extended mission.
This image was taken simultaneously with PIA10481 and looks toward the leading side of Enceladus (504 kilometers, 313 miles across). North is up.
The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 28, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 291,000 kilometers (181,000 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 15 degrees. Image scale is 2 kilometers (1 mile) per pixel.
The Cassini Equinox Mission is a joint United States and European endeavor. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini Equinox Mission visit http://ciclops.org, http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Released: October 7, 2008 (PIA 10485)
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Alliance Member Comments
great image!
This reminds me of looking at a scene in one of those 3D viewfinder toys when I was a kid. So amazing!
Correct, that one :)
This one: http://ciclops.org/view/1585/Ringside_with_Dione
Impressive. It remembers me those images took when Cassini was approaching to Dione roughly 3 years ago.
another stunning example of art and science coexisting.
Friend Red_dragon, what do you think?
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