This Cassini view of Enceladus hints at the curvilinear, groove-
like features that crisscross the moon's surface, as seen in
images from NASA's Voyager spacecraft. The image shows the
trailing hemisphere of Enceladus, which is the side opposite the
moon's direction of motion in its orbit. Enceladus is 499
kilometers (310 miles) across. The image was taken in visible
light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Oct.
27, 2004, at a distance of about 766,000 kilometers (476,000
miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or
phase, angle of 34 degrees. The image scale is 4.6 kilometers
(2.8 miles) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a
cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the
Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division
of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space Science,
Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard
cameras, were designed, developed and assem