This image was taken during Cassini's closest-ever approach to Enceladus on March 9, 2005. The image was taken with the narrow angle camera using filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 930 nanometers. The image was acquired from a distance of approximately 143,000 kilometers (89,000 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 48 degrees. Resolution in the image is about 900 meters (3,000 feet) per pixel.

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