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The "Sprayer" under the Rings
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Caption originale:"Enceladus blasts its icy spray into space in this unlit-side Ring view that also features a tiny sliver of Rhea.
The South Polar Region of Rhea (dim.: 1.528 Km, or about 949 miles across) peeks out from beneath the Rings to the right of Enceladus (dim.: 505 Km, or about 314 miles across).
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 9, 2006 at a distance of approx. 3,9 MKM (about 2,4 MMs) from Enceladus and 4,6 MKM (such as about 2,9 MMs) from Rhea. The Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle is 161°. Image scale is about 23 Km (approx. 14 miles) per pixel on Enceladus".
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