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Crescent Enceladus: Icy Saturn Moon Shines in Cassini Photo

  

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Via:  matti-viikate  •  8 years ago  •  3 comments

Crescent Enceladus: Icy Saturn Moon Shines in Cassini Photo


Crescent Enceladus: Icy Saturn Moon Shines in Cassini Photo
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this shot of the Saturn moon Enceladus on March 29, 2017, from a distance of about 110,000 miles (180,000 kilometers). Image scale is 0.6 miles (1 km) per pixel.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Cassini may be gone, but the spacecraft's gorgeous photos will be with us forever, as a newly released shot of the   Saturn moon Enceladus   shows.

In the image, the distant sun lights up a crescent of Enceladus' icy surface, while the rest of the 313-mile-wide (504 kilometers) moon's face glows dully in reflected "Saturn-shine."

Cassini took the photo with its narrow-angle camera on March 29, when the probe was about 110,000 miles (180,000 km) from Enceladus. The image scale is 0.6 miles (1 km) per pixel, NASA officials said. [ Enceladus in Photos: Amazing Views of Saturn's Icy Moon ]


https://www.space.com/38263-crescent-enceladus-photo-nasa-cassini.html


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Matti Viikate
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1  seeder  Matti Viikate    8 years ago

Thank you for visiting, comments are welcome.

 
 
 
Kavika
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2  Kavika     8 years ago

Stunning photos. 

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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3  Jeremy Retired in NC    8 years ago

Great photos.  I'm waiting on the final pictures from Cassini.

 
 

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