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PIA03554: Enceladus Animation
This frame from an animation shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft approaching Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. It shows the highest resolution images obtained of the moon's surface.
 Target Name:  Enceladus
 Is a satellite of:  Saturn
 Mission:  Cassini-Huygens 
 Spacecraft:  Cassini Orbiter
 Instrument:  Composite Infrared Spectrometer 
Imaging Science Subsystem 
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  318 x 239 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Primary Data Set:  Cassini 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA03554.tif (228.5 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA03554.jpg (6.463 kB)  

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Enceladus Animation

This animation shows the Cassini spacecraft approaching Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. It shows the highest resolution images obtained of the moon's surface. This is followed by a depiction of Saturn's magnetic field, which interacts with Enceladus' atmosphere and presumed plume coming from the south pole.

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 was designed, developed and assembled at JPL.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2005-08-31