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Enceladus New View

Enceladus View from the South

This is a somewhat new view of Enceladus. Most global images we have seen show both the ridges and the cratered areas, whereas this image features almost exclusively the wrinkled terrain. Few craters are visible in this area which suggests that the details of its surface are quite young.

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5 Responses to “Enceladus New View”

  1. Gordan Says:
    October 4th, 2008 at 11:04 am

    Meh… they could have produced a false color version of that image, the data is there. See http://flickr.com/photos/ugordan/2677347657/

    The team really puts out too many monochrome images for my taste.

  2. Gordan Says:
    October 4th, 2008 at 11:06 am

    Btw, it’s not really the moon’s southern region. It’s pretty much centered on the equatorial region of the leading hemisphere. The tiger stripes are at the bottom.

  3. thomas Says:
    October 4th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    ? i have never seen that much wrinkling on the northern hemisphere. isn’t that the striping dead center?

  4. Gordan Says:
    October 4th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    Nope, that’s the wrinkled terrain, those aren’t actual faults as tiger stripes are. If you look at my color composite you can see the stripes are at the bottom with their characteristic blue color, while this terrain is just jumbled from a similar thermal history (probably).

  5. The Chop Shop Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    how about the next flyby, that looks pretty southern. will that give us a global southern view of enceladus?

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