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Sunset on the Jets

Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Sunset on the Jets
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Uploader comment: As the long winter night deepens at Enceladus' south pole, its jets are also progressively falling into darkness. The shadow of the moon itself is slowly creeping up the jets making the portions closest to the surface difficult to observe by the Cassini spacecraft.


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