Saturn Moon's Icy Secrets Shine Bright in New NASA Images New
details about Enceladus, one of the icy moons orbiting Saturn,
are revealed in new images of the bright and shimmering cosmic
body. The snapshots highlight some of the grooves in Enceladus'
south polar region, including unexpected textures in the moon's
ice. The photos, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 6,
are the highest-resolution images of this region obtained so
far, according to NASA officials. The new images of Enceladus
come from data collected by a special radar instrument on
Cassini, called the synthetic aperture radar. The area
photographed by Cassini does not include Enceladus' famous
"tiger stripes," which are huge fissures on the moon's ice-
covered surface that eject plumes of ice particles and water
vapor. These icy geysers cover regions just a few hundred miles
away from the stripes, NASA scientists said. Researchers are
scrutinizing an area on Enceladus that appears to have a very
rough surface texture that glimmers peculia