Found these pictures of enceladus taken by cassini recently and thought I would share them cause they look sweet.
N00176741.jpg was taken on October 01, 2011 and received on Earth October 02, 2011. The camera was pointing toward ENCELADUS at approximately 121,170 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System in 2012.
N00176756.jpg was taken on October 01, 2011 and received on Earth October 02, 2011. The camera was pointing toward ENCELADUS at approximately 76,706 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and IR3 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System in 2012.
Recent Cassini images of Saturn's moon Enceladus backlit by the sun show the fountain-like sources of the fine spray of material that towers over the south polar region. The image was taken looking more or less broadside at the 'tiger stripe' fractures observed in earlier Enceladus images. It shows discrete plumes of a variety of apparent sizes above the limb of the moon.
The greatly enhanced and colorized image shows the enormous extent of the fainter, larger-scale component of the plume.
