PIA23175: Enceladus Global View with Plume (Artist's Rendering)
This illustration shows Saturn's icy moon Enceladus with the plume of ice particles, water vapor and organic molecules that sprays from fractures in the moon's south polar region.
 Target Name:  Enceladus
 Is a satellite of:  Saturn
 Mission:  Cassini-Huygens 
 Spacecraft:  Cassini Orbiter
 Product Size:  4650 x 5850 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23175.tif (33.19 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23175.jpg (2.445 MB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This illustration shows Saturn's icy moon Enceladus with the plume of ice particles, water vapor and organic molecules that sprays from fractures in the moon's south polar region.

A cutaway version of this graphic is also available, showing the moon's interior ocean and hydrothermal activity — both of which were discovered by NASA's Cassini mission (see PIA20013).

This global view was created using a Cassini-derived map of Enceladus (see PIA18435).

More information about Enceladus is available at https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/enceladus/in-depth/. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/overview/.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2020-02-24