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Icy Oasis (MULTISPECTRUM-2; credits: Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"With its excess warmth, water ice jets and huge vapor plume laced with simple organic materials, Enceladus is an important part of the quest to understand environments compatible with the chemistry of life as we know it. The Sulci, or "Tiger Stripe" fractures, in the South Polar Region are visible at bottom -- the view here is parallel to the direction of the Sulci.
The view looks toward the anti-Saturn Hemisphere on the moon's Trailing Side. North on Enceladus is towards the top of the image.
This view is a composite of individual frames obtained using filters sensitive to ultraviolet (centered at 338 nanometers), green (centered at 568 nanometers) and infrared light (centered at 1002 nanometers).
The broad range of wavelengths exaggerates subtle color variations across the moon's surface.
The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 11, 2008.
The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 739.000 Km (such as about 459.000 miles) from Enceladus and at Phase Angle of 36°.
Image scale is roughly 4 Km (about 2,5 miles) per pixel".
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