Written by Rosemary Sullivant
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA – Saturn’s moon Enceladus shows its icy face and famous plumes in raw, unprocessed images captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its successful flyby on November 6th, 2011.
During this Enceladus encounter, the 16th of Cassini’s mission, the spacecraft passed the moon at distance of about 300 miles (500 kilometers) at 10:11pm PDT on November 5th (04:49 UTC on November 6th).
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.To see the raw images, go to http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/ and click on “Search Images.”
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov .