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Icy Plume in the Saturnshine! (natural colors; credits: Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"The active Surface Jets on Enceladus collectively form a brilliant, extended Plume that is made visible as sunlight scatters among the microscopic particles of ice.
The Plume is more easily seen with the Sun directly, or almost directly, behind Enceladus, as is the case here. The moon's surface is lit here by reflected light from Saturn.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 17, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 235.000 Km (such as about 146.000 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-Spacecraft angle of 140°.
Image scale is approx. 1 Km (0,6 mile) per pixel".
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