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Icy Emanations...
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Caption NASA:"Peeking over the crescent of Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft views the towering plume of ice particles erupting from the moon's South Polar Region.
Multiple components of the overall plume are visible in this view of Enceladus.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 24, 2007 at a distance of approx. 188.000 Km (such as about 117.000 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 153°.
Image scale is roughly 1 Km (about 0,6 miles) per pixel".
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