"... One of the closest pictures yet obtained of Saturn's ice-spewing moon Enceladus. The image was taken from about 1,700 kilometers up as the robotic Cassini spacecraft zoomed by the fractured ice ball last week. Features the size of a bus are resolvable in this highly detailed image taken of Enceladus' active tiger stripe region. Very different from most other moons and planets, grooves and hills dot an alien moonscape devoid of craters."
Thursday, November 06, 2008
APOD: 2008 November 5 - Seventeen Hundred Kilometers Above Enceladus
APOD: 2008 November 5 - Seventeen Hundred Kilometers Above Enceladus:
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