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Bruce Murray Space Image Library

Show above Enceladus

Show above Enceladus
Show above Enceladus Cassini obtained this remarkable view of Enceladus, the Rings of Saturn and Titan in the same field of view on 17 May 2010. The night side of Enceladus is silhouetted at the bottom of the frame with its ice plumes beyond the horizon still sunlit. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute / Don Davis

This is a hand colored and composited embellishment of a grayscale JPEG release, N00154034. Other photos in this series were used to derive good extrapolations of the plume brightness contours.