Gallery: Cassini Is About to Taste the Huge Geysers of Enceladus

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    Geysers on Enceladus' south pole are fueled by the moon's subsurface ocean, which seems to have hydrothermal activity.
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    The Cassini flyby, in red, will pass over the moon's characteristic "tiger stripes," where the plumes seem to originate.
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    A wide view of Enceladus' long fractures.
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    Water ice sprayed from the tiger stripes on Enceladus' south pole.
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    A long fracture on Enceladus' north pole, captured earlier this month.
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    Pockmarks riddle the north pole of Enceladus.
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    More pockmarks and fractures.
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    Deep craters bubble together on the sunlit north pole of Enceladus.
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