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Enceladus geyser snow
Liquid water breaches the floor of a crevasse and is
propelled into the frigid vacuum of space as a jet of ice crystals. Some of
the crystals settle back to Enceladus' surface as snow. The perspective is from Enceladus' south pole. Saturn rests low on the horizon, its rings seen edge-on as a thin line. Saturn's largest satellite Titan appears as an orange dot
on the right just above the horizon.
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Special thanks to Björn Jónsson for his Saturn clouds map.
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