Enceladus Plume (Raw image)

This raw image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken on March 27, 2012.
The camera was pointing toward Saturn's moon Enceladus at approximately 144,281 miles (232,197 kilometers) away.

This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System in 2013.

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The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, 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 in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

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

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute