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Enceladus (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)
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Caption NASA:"Two sources of light reveal the dramatic Surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus in this Cassini image in which geologic features give the appearance of the leathery skin of an elephant.
Geologically young and (relatively) smooth Terrain in the Southern and Middle Latitudes gives way to older, Cratered Terrain in the Northern Latitudes of the moon.
Sunlight illuminates the right of the image, and light reflected off Saturn ("Saturnshine") dimly illuminates the left. This view looks toward the Leading Hemisphere of Enceladus.
North on Enceladus is up.
The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 7, 2010. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 198.000 Km (such as about 123.000 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 92°.
Image scale is roughly 1 Km (3300 feet) per pixel".
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