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The Fountains of Enceladus

Who needs Hollywood to do CG visualisations of space travel? Check out this shot by the Cassini probe of the ‘geysers’ venting from the Saturnian moon Enceladus, with both a crescent Titan and the Saturnian rings as a backdrop:

(Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Thomas Romer / Gordan Ugarkovic)

Love even the little details, like the faint line showing the (nitrogen-dominated) atmosphere ‘bubble’ enclosing Titan.

Via the Planetary Society Blog (larger version available there).

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