Atmospheric Detail and Enceladus

Atmospheric Detail and Enceladus
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Atmospheric Detail and Enceladus

June 8, 2004





The high clouds of Saturn's bright equatorial band appear to
stretch like cotton candy in this image taken by the Cassini
narrow angle camera on May 11, 2004. The icy moon Enceladus (499
kilometers, or 310 miles across) is faintly visible below and to
the right of the South Pole. The image was taken from a distance
of 26.3 million kilometers (16.3 million miles) from Saturn
through a filter centered at 727 nanometers. The image scale is
156 kilometers (97 miles) per pixel. No contrast enhancement has
been performed on this image.


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 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, 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 .


Image Credit:

NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute