This image is the fourth skeet-shoot footprint taken during Cassini's very
close flyby of Enceladus on Aug. 11, 2008. Cairo Sulcus is shown crossing
the upper left portion of the image. An unnamed fracture curves around the
lower right corner. (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 3,027
kilometers (1,881 miles) above the surface of Enceladus. Image scale is
approximately 20 meters (66 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.