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Enceladus' Mighty Plume
11.21.09
 
Unprocessed image from Cassini's Enceladus flyby

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This unprocessed image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its Nov. 21, 2009 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. It shows the moon's south polar region, where jets of water vapor and other particles spew from fissures on the surface.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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