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The "Fountains" of Enceladus at "High Phase" (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)
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Caption NASA:"Saturn's moon Enceladus, imaged at High Phase, shows off its spectacular Water Ice Plumes emanating from its South Polar Region.
This image was captured at a Phase, or Sun-Enceladus-Spacecraft, Angle of 159° so that Sunlight would reveal the backlit plumes.
Sunlight brightly illuminates Terrain on the left. Light reflected off Saturn illuminates the rest of the moon more dimly. This view looks toward the Trailing Hemisphere of Enceladus. North is down. Background stars, elongated by the movement of the Spacecraft during the exposure, are also visible.
The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 13, 2009. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 431.000 Km (about 268.000 miles) from Enceladus.
Image scale is roughly 3 Km (about 1,9 miles) per pixel".
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