This nearly equatorial view shows cratered regions on Enceladus in the
central part of its leading hemisphere and high northern latitudes. Much
of the rest of the geologically active moon is relatively crater free and
covered by fractures and folds.
North on Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across) is up.
The image was taken in polarized green light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on June 28, 2007 at a distance of approximately
293,000 kilometers (182,000 miles) from Enceladus. Image scale is 2
kilometers (1 mile) 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/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.