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Enceladus in visible light
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Caption NASA originale:"Hints of the curving linear grooves that crisscross bright, icy Enceladus are just discernible in this image captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Enceladus is almost entirely composed of water ice and has a surface as bright as snow. Its diameter is 499 Km (310 miles).
This view shows principally the leading hemisphere of Enceladus. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Nov. 1, 2004, at a distance of 1,8 MKMs from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 108°. North is up. The image scale is about 11 Km (or 7 miles) per pixel. The image has been magnified by a factor of two and contrast enhanced to aid visibility of surface features".
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