CICLOPS: Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for OPerationS
A Fresh Face

A Fresh Face
PIA 09770
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   The leading hemisphere of Enceladus displays a remarkably fresh-looking surface in this recent Cassini view. At this resolution, only a few craters can be made out in this wrinkled region of the geologically active moon's surface. A far more heavily cratered, and presumably older, terrain region is visible to the northwest.

This view is centered on 15 degrees north latitude, 109 degrees west longitude. North on Enceladus (504 kilometers, 313 miles across) is up.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 108,000 kilometers (67,000 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 75 degrees. Image scale is 646 meters (2,119 feet) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. 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-Huygens mission, visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page, http://ciclops.org.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Released: November 13, 2007 (PIA 09770)
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Alliance Member Comments
vista (Dec 1, 2007 at 4:05 AM):
I agree these are great images i particulary like the images of Enceladus.

Vista
Phideas (Nov 18, 2007 at 9:44 PM):
These are excellent photos, thank-you for organizing and posting these in such a way that we can all enjoy them online.

Best Regards,
-Greg