This high-resolution stereo anaglyph of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows a
region of craters softened by time and torn apart by tectonic stresses.
Fractures 100 to 400 meters (330 to 1,300 feet) in width crosscut the
terrain: One set trends northeast-southwest and another trends
northwest-southeast. North is up. A region of "grooved terrain" is
visible on the left. A broad canyon, its floor partly concealed by shadow,
is notable on the right.
The images for this anaglyph were taken in visible light with Cassini's
narrow-angle camera at distances from Enceladus ranging from about 25,700
kilometers (16,000 miles, red-colored image) to 5,200 kilometers (3,300
miles, blue-colored image) and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase,
angle ranging from 46 to 39 degrees. Pixel scale in the red image was 150
meters (490 feet) per pixel. Scale in the blue image was 30 meters (100
feet) per pixel.
A separate, non-stereo version of the scene, showing only the more-distant
image, is also available (see PIA06213). The images have been
contrast-enhanced to aid visibility.
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 team is based at the Space Science
Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.
