Water vapor plume jetting from the southern pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Water vapor plume jetting from the southern pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus

Caption

In this image, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a water vapor plume jetting from the southern pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, extending out 20 times the size of the moon itself. The inset, an image from the Cassini orbiter, emphasizes how small Enceladus appears in the Webb image compared to the water plume.

Credit

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and G. Villanueva (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center). Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI).

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