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Enceladus (possible Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)
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Caption NASA:"The Cassini Spacecraft examines old and new terrain on Saturn's fascinating Enceladus, a moon where jets of water ice particles and vapor spew from the South Pole.
Newly created terrain is at the bottom, in the center and on the left of this view. Older, cratered terrain is on the right. See PIA11685 for another view of this area and more information about its geology. This image was captured during Cassini's Nov. 21, 2009, flyby of the moon. This view looks toward the Leading Hemisphere of Enceladus.
North on Enceladus is up and rotated 3° to the right.
The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 133.000 Km (such as about 83.000 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 46°.
Image scale is roughly 796 meters (2612 feet) per pixel".
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