File:Enceladus in the Visual.jpg

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English: "The Cassini spacecraft looks at a brightly illuminated Enceladus and examines the surface of the leading hemisphere of this Saturnian moon."

"North on Enceladus (313 miles across, or 504 kilometers) is up and rotated 21 degrees to the right. "

"The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 6, 2011. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 67,700 miles (109,000 kilometers) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 21 degrees. Image scale is 2,130 feet (649 meters) per pixel."
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Source NASA Multimedia, url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia14588.html.
Author Cassini Team

Page Last Updated: January 12, 2012 Page Editor: Tony Greicius NASA Official: Brian Dunbar

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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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