Enceladus' surface. High-resolution Cassini spacecraft image of the surface of Enceladus,one of Saturn's moons. The image shows a tectonically fractured surface. This is a young area of the moon's surface and does not contain any impact craters. Enceladus is composed of water ice,silicates and iron. Its surface features suggest the presence of a subsurface ocean,although this has not been confirmed. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched in 1997 to investigate Saturn,its rings and its moons. This image was taken at a distance of 208 kilometres during Cassini's very close flyby of Enceladus on 14 July 2005 | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / NASA |
Taille de l’image : | 2524 px × 2524 px |
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