... Last month when the above image was taken, the gliding spacecraft was about one million kilometers from foreground Enceladus , a small Saturnian moon only about 500 kilometers across. ...
... Reflection of light off of moons like Enceladus (pictured) and the billions of small particles in Saturn's rings , however, gives the giant space orb an unusual glow, an effect highlighted in polarized light. ...
... The field covers over 500 thousand light-years at the trio's estimated distance of 30 million light-years. Tomorrow's picture: Enceladus . < | Archive | ...
... Visible in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn's E ring , the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus , and the outermost ring visible above. ...
... Icy bright Tethys , a moon of Saturn likely brightened by a sandblasting rain of ice from sister moon Enceladus , is visible in front of the darker rings. ...
... its past successes and opportunistic location have prompted NASA to start a two-year Equinox Mission , further exploring not only Saturn's enigmatic moons Titan and Enceladus , but Saturn herself as her grand rings tilt right at the Sun in August 2009 ...