This image is the first skeet-shoot image taken during Cassini's very
close flyby of Enceladus on Aug. 11, 2008. It captures a region near the
Cairo Sulcus on Enceladus' south polar terrain that is littered with
blocks of ice. (The image is upside down from the skeet-shoot footprint
shown here.) The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle
camera on Aug. 11, 2008, a distance of approximately 1,288 kilometers (800
miles) above the surface of Enceladus. Image scale is approximately 10
meters (33 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 mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.