Enceladus facts for kids
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Enceladus is one of the Giants of Greek mythology.
Images for kids
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Voyager 2 view of Enceladus in 1981: Samarkand Sulci vertical grooves (lower center); Ali Baba and Aladdin craters (upper left)
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Enceladus's orbit (red) – Saturn's north pole view
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Possible origins of methane found in plumes
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Eruptions on Enceladus look like discrete jets, but may be "curtain eruptions" instead ([1] video animation)
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South polar view of the anti-Saturn hemisphere, with fractured areas in blue (false color)
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Enceladus – tilted terminator – north is up
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Enceladus – possibility of fresh ice detected (September 18, 2020)
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Enceladus – Infrared map view (September 29, 2020)
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View of Enceladus's Europa-like surface with the Labtayt Sulci fractures at center and the Ebony and Cufa dorsa at lower left, imaged by Cassini on February 17, 2005
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Close-up of south pole terrain
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Y-shaped discontinuities, imaged February 15, 2016
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A model of the interior of Enceladus: silicate core (brown); water-ice-rich mantle (white); a proposed diapir under the south pole (noted in the mantle (yellow) and core (red))
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updated and better scaled version]])
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Enceladus – organics on ice grains (artist concept)
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Chemical composition of Enceladus's plumes
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Heat map of the south polar fractures, dubbed 'tiger stripes'
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Enceladus (artist concept; February 24, 2020)
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Artist's impression of possible hydrothermal activity on Enceladus's ocean floor
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Animated 3D model of the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft
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Enceladus transiting the moon Titan
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A size comparison of Enceladus against the British Isles.
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Enceladus orbiting within Saturn's E ring
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Enceladus geyser tendrils - comparison of images ("a";"c") with computer simulations
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Enceladus south polar region - locations of most active tendril-producing geysers
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Enceladus and south polar jets (April 13, 2017).
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Plumes above the limb of Enceladus feeding the E ring
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A false-color Cassini image of the jets
See also
In Spanish: Encélado (satélite) para niños
