Fountains of Enceladus PIA07758

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NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07758
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1688

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https://dkwiki.dk/b/3052b

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Wikimedia Commons

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Fountains of Enceladus Recent Cassini images of Saturn's moon Enceladus backlit by the sun show the fountain-like sources of the fine spray of material that towers over the south polar region. This image was taken looking more or less broadside at the "tiger stripe" fractures observed in earlier Enceladus images. It shows discrete plumes of a variety of apparent sizes above the limb of the moon.

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