Emily Lakdawalla • Nov 22, 2009
Two more awesome pictures from the Enceladus flyby
I'm getting to be a broken record here, but I can't stop looking at these photos from the Enceladus flyby. This first one I put together from two of the south polar plume images -- you can see all four of the tiger stripes, and the plumes issuing from them, in this wide shot. I mosaicked two images, matching their levels, rotated them 180 degrees to put "ground" at the bottom and "sky" at the top, and filled in a little of the background in the corner at lower right to fill out the whole image.
![Enceladan south polar vents and plumes](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x659_crop_center-center_82_line/90774/20160313_N00146851_55_rotated_mosaic.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x421_crop_center-center_60_line/90774/20160313_N00146851_55_rotated_mosaic.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x316_crop_center-center_60_line/90774/20160313_N00146851_55_rotated_mosaic.jpg 576w)
This other one was put together by Gordan Ugarkovic -- Cassini flies into the plumes! Cooooool. Wish I could have been riding along. That would be one spectacular view.
![Approaching the plumes](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/20120909_enceladus_plumes_flythru.gif)
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