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This Cassini image was the fourth 'skeet shoot' narrow-angle image
captured during the Oct. 31, 2008, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
The source region for jet VI (see PIA08385) has been identified. The
image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct.
31, 2008, at a distance of approximately 3,417 kilometers (2,135 miles)
from Enceladus and at a sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 75
degrees. Image scale is 38 meters per pixel (125 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.
