Enceladus in pseudo-color
Jan. 18th, 2005 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinI predict that we're going to be hearing many more comparisons between Enceladus and Europa in coming months:
This is another IR/green/UV pseudo-color picture; in visible light the icy surface would probably just be white (Enceladus is actually one of the whitest objects in the solar system). The light on the night side is all Saturn-shine.
The whole daylight area is covered by strange, roughly parallel ridges. Voyager 2 photographed the other side, which has more craters (though still not that many, by Saturnian moon standards) and what look like tectonic plate boundaries.
This is another IR/green/UV pseudo-color picture; in visible light the icy surface would probably just be white (Enceladus is actually one of the whitest objects in the solar system). The light on the night side is all Saturn-shine.
The whole daylight area is covered by strange, roughly parallel ridges. Voyager 2 photographed the other side, which has more craters (though still not that many, by Saturnian moon standards) and what look like tectonic plate boundaries.