Wired Space Photo of the Day: Tiger Stripes of Enceladus

Saturn's moon Dione, as seen by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute From a distance, most of the Saturnian moon Dione resembles a bland cueball. Thanks to close-up images of a 500-mile-long (800-kilometer-long) ...

This stunning space wallpaper shows a patchwork network of frozen ridges and troughs that cover the face of Enceladus, Saturn's most enigmatic of icy moons. Saturn's imposing gravitational pull massages the moon's icy shell, buckling it into ridges ...

Topics: Planetary Society People, Venus, Earth, Mars, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Enceladus, Titan, extrasolar planets, hydrology, ice worlds This article was originally posted on The Huffington Post. Click here to read an original op-ed ...

This picture may be simple—monochromatic, a deep black background, and just a hunk fo rock to admire—but it's also stunningly beautiful. You're looking at Enceladus, the sixth-largest of the moons of Saturn, as pictured by Cassini. Measuring 313 ...

gy, Enceladus was one of the Gigantes, or Giants, the enormous children of Gaia, the ancient Greek personification of Earth. During the battle between the Giants and the Olympian gods, Enceladus was wounded by a spear thrown by the goddess Athena.

The jointly operated NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens orbiter exploring Saturn is set to take a spectacular image of Earth this afternoon July 19 during a solar eclipse of the sixth planet. Earth will actually appear as a small, pale blue dot between ...

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More than 50 years of travelling invisible interplanetary highways around our Solar System, and nearly a decade of orbiting Saturn, have brought us to a keen awareness of the celestial bodies in motion around the Sun, and the series of events ...

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