This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
| This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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A Trip Into Space  Saturn Satellites And Rings Saturn's Satellite Enceladus |
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| See also: Saturnian Satellite Fact Sheet |   |
Little detail is visible on the surface of Saturn's satellite Enceladus in this color-enhanced image taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980 from a distance of 655,000 kilometers (393,000 miles). The lack of visible surface detail on the satellite indicates that Enceladus' surface is dramatically different from the surfaces of the other larger Saturnian moons. Voyager 2 will fly much closer to Enceladus (within 90,000 kilometers or 54,000 miles) when the spacecraft arrives at Saturn in August 1981, to obtain higher resolution images of the moon. The Voyager Project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Last Update: 2004-Nov-27