엔켈라두스의 남극 지역

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

카시니 호가 엔켈라두스의 남극지역을 가장 가까운 거리에서 통과하는 동안 빠르게 지나가는 아래 지형을 담아내기 위해 빠른 속도로 셔터를 열고 닫았다. 
이 사진은 카시니 호의 빠른 속도로 인해 약간은 번져버린 원래 사진을 재처리한 것이다.

 

이 지역은 엔켈라두스의 남위 57도, 경위 324도 지역이다.
이 사진은 2015년 10월 28일 카시니 호의 광각 카메라를 이용하여 가시광선으로 촬영되었다.

 

사진이 촬영될 당시 엔켈라두스까지의 거리는 124킬로미터였으며 사진의 해상도는 픽셀당 15미터이다.

 

 

 

출처 : NASA 제트추진연구소(JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Photo Journal
         http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17204
        
참고 : 엔켈라두스를 비롯한 토성과 토성의 여러 달에 대한 다양한 포스팅은 아래 링크를 통해 조회할 수 있습니다.   
           https://big-crunch.tistory.com/12346948

 

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PIA17204: Enceladus Up-Close

During its closest ever dive past the active south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft quickly shuttered its imaging cameras to capture glimpses of the fast moving terrain below. This view has been processed to remove slight smearing present in the original, unprocessed image that was caused by the spacecraft's fast motion.

A labeled version of this image includes a scale bar.

This view is centered on terrain at 57 degrees south latitude, 324 degrees west longitude. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 28, 2015.

The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 77 miles (124 kilometers) from Enceladus. Image scale is 49 feet (15 meters) per pixel.

The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Image Addition Date: 2015-10-30