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Enceladus (pronounced /ɛnˈsɛlədəs/ Greek Εγκέλαδος), is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn. It was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel. Until the two Voyager spacecraft passed near it in the early 1980s, very little was known about this small moon besides the identification of water ice on its surface.
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Enceladus (pronounced /ɛnˈsɛlədəs/ Greek Εγκέλαδος), is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn. It was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel. Until the two Voyager spacecraft passed near it in the early 1980s, very little was known about this small moon besides the identification of water ice on its surface.
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Enceladus ("en SEL a dus") is the eighth of Saturn 's known satellites: orbit: 238,020 km from Saturn diameter: 498 km mass: 7.30e19 kg
In Greek mythology, Enceladus (or Enkelados, Ἐγκέλαδος/"Trumpeter to Arms") was one of the Gigantes, the enormous children of Gaia (Earth) fertilized by the blood of castrated Ouranos. With the other Gigantes, Enceladus appeared in one particular region—either Phlegra, the "burning plain" in Thrace, or Pallene. Like the other Gigantes, Enceladus had serpent-like lower limbs, "with the scales of dragons for feet" as Bibliotheke states, though this convention was not invariably followed in pictorial representations. ...
The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe ... Saturn's tiny, icy moon Enceladus has recently been visited by NASA's Cassini orbiter on several very close ...
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Enceladus [en-SELL-ah-dus] is one of the innermost moons of Saturn. It is quite similar in size to Mimas but has a smoother, brighter surface.
The readings from Enceladus' geyser plumes indicate that all the prerequisites for life as we know it could exist beneath Enceladus' surface, Porco said.
This picture of Enceladus was taken by Cassini. The moon's South Pole is towards the left side of the picture. Can you see the "Tiger Stripes" there?
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