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- PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
- JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
- PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109. Telephone (2l3) 354-5011
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- PHOTO CAPTION (TOP) P-23268C
- S-1-68
- Jan. 6, 1981
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- Little detail is visible on the surface of Saturn's satellite
- Enceladus in this color-enhanced image taken by NASA's Voyager 1
- on Nov. 12, 1980 from a distance of 655,000 kilometers
- (393,000 miles). The lack of visible surface detail on the satellite
- indicates that Enceladus' surface is dramatically different
- from the surfaces of the other larger Saturnian moons. Voyager 2
- will fly much closer to Enceladus (within 90,000 kilometers
- or 54,000 miles) when the spacecraft arrives at Saturn in
- August 1981, to obtain higher resolution images of the moon.
- The Voyager Project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion
- Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
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