Taking a Shine to Enceladus
Saturn's rings cast shadows on the planet's cloud tops, providing a perfect backdrop for the brilliant sphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The tiny world's bright white surface results in part from a snow of material originating from the towering plume of icy particles at Enceladus' south pole.
This image looks toward the leading side of Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across). North is up.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on June 28, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 281,000 kilometers (175,000 miles) from Enceladus. Image scale is about 2 kilometers (1 mile) per pixel.
The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on September 15, 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Image Number: PIA17216
Date: June 28, 2007
Taking a Shine to Enceladus
Saturn's rings cast shadows on the planet's cloud tops, providing a perfect backdrop for the brilliant sphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The tiny world's bright white surface results in part from a snow of material originating from the towering plume of icy particles at Enceladus' south pole.
This image looks toward the leading side of Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across). North is up.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on June 28, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 281,000 kilometers (175,000 miles) from Enceladus. Image scale is about 2 kilometers (1 mile) per pixel.
The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on September 15, 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Image Number: PIA17216
Date: June 28, 2007