Astronomy
Amazing Enceladus Images
Image of plume from far away.
In my previous post Happy Halloween from Cassini Spacecraft Team i mentioned about Cassini spacecraft going to the Moon of Saturn, Enceladus on 2th November, 2009.
Cassini has captured some amazing images of the plumes shooting from Enceladus , they are simply the raw images.
The objective of Cassini is to analyse the particles in the plume with the instruments that can detect the mass , size, charge, speed and composition.
These are the first images of the plume and are amazing.
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