The fountains of Enceladus

The fountains of Enceladus
Thin beams of particles of ice shoot up to 750 kilometres into space from the surface of Saturn's moon. The sources of the fountains, at the South Pole of the icy moon, are approximately 100-kilometre-long fissures that are slightly warmer than their surroundings.
Credit:

NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

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