A ghostly view of Enceladus reveals the specter of the moon's icy plume of
fine particles. Scientists continue to monitor the plume, where mission
planning allows, using the Cassini spacecraft's imaging cameras.
This view looks toward northern latitudes on the trailing hemisphere of
Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across). North is up.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera using
a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of ultraviolet light centered
at 338 nanometers on Oct. 31, 2006. Cassini was then at a distance of
approximately 1.4 million kilometers (900,000 miles) from Enceladus and at
a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 148 degrees. Image scale is
8 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
