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# Posted: 25 Feb 2006 17:36
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Not a single Probe Droid can be seen on Saturn's moon Enceladus, not a sign of a Rebel base. But, our own Cassini probe is uncovering the facts.
On a moon of snow and Ice orbiting Saturn details such as the southern "tiger stripe" features and other relatively youthful fractures are almost certainly attributable to larger grain sizes of relatively pure ice, compared to most surface materials.
On the "tiger stripes," this coarse-grained ice is seen in the colored deposits flanking the fractures as well as inside the fractures. On older fractures on other areas of Enceladus, the blue ice mostly occurs on the exposed wall scarps.
The color difference across the moons surface (a subtle gradation from upper left to lower right) could indicate broad differences across the moon's surface.
Terrain on the trailing hemisphere of Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across) is seen here. North is up.
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