Enceladus.

The famous water plumes on the south polar limb, backlit by the Sun with a little extra reflected Saturn glow on one side, all seen against the E-ring.

HDR stack of two monochrome images taken by the ISS NAC on Cassini on 27 November 2015.

Downloaded from the PDS, aligned, processed, cleaned, upscaled by a factor of two, then tinted for aesthetic effect.

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Cassini Imaging Team / Mark McCaughrean

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@markmccaughrean Now here’s what I love about being on
Mastodon. Motivated by this, I read about Enceladus and my jaw dropped. Tremendous moon; fills me with wonder.
@shannonf Thank you – that’s very kind. Indeed, Enceladus is a fascinating world, one among many in our Solar System 🙂👍