Another one

Mar. 9th, 2005 10:44 pm
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View of Enceladus, showing many craters, and uncratered terrain with branching canyons and cracks

Here's another one, showing a large chunk of the visible disc. This time I've increased the contrast as well as removed the dropouts; the original image had the terrain relief kind of washed-out, probably just because the surface of Enceladus is so white, like fresh snow.

I tried making a color composite of this view from IR/green/UV pictures, but it came out pretty bad, so I'll let somebody else do it. Enceladus looks particularly weird in such false-color composites; it seems almost as if the spectral reflectivity of the ice in the infrared and ultraviolet varies with angle.
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