The moon Enceladus seems to hover above the outer reaches of Saturn's B ring. Below and to the right of Enceladus, four faint bands lie in the center of the dark Cassini Division.
Recently, scientists have speculated that the particles that make up the dense B and A rings might be more like fluffy snowballs than hard ice cubes. The conclusion is based on temperature data obtained by the Cassini spacecraft.
Enceladus' diameter is 505 kilometers (314 miles). The icy moon is on the near side of the rings in this view.
This image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 15, 2005, at a distance of approximately 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Enceladus. The image scale is 14 kilometers (9 miles) per pixel on Enceladus.
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* '''Source:''' [http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07619 NASA Planetary Photojournal PIA07619] * '''Original Caption Released with Image:''' The moon Enceladus seems to hover above the outer reaches of Saturn's B ring. Below and to the right o