Close Up on Enceladus
This image was taken during Cassini’s first close approach to Enceladus.
The image was taken on February 17, 2005 in visible light with the narrow angle camera from a distance of approximately 10,750 kilometers (6,680 miles). Resolution in the image is 60 meters (197 feet) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page, http://ciclops.org.
Original Source: NASA/JPL/SSI Release
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