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The "fresh" face of Enceladus
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Caption NASA:"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 older, terrain region is visible to the North-West.
This view is centered on 15° North Latitude, 109° West Longitude.
North on Enceladus 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 approx. 108.000 Km (such as about 67.000 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 75°.
Image scale is roughly 646 meters (2.119 feet) per pixel".
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