# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BWs3pm3BR-c
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11735875-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2017-07-18T20:19:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

What appears to be a floating orb in the blackness of space is actually Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Here, intriguing south-polar jets are visible, backlit by sunlight while the moon itself glows softly in reflected Saturn-shine. 
Observations of the jets taken from various viewing geometries provide different insights into these remarkable features. Our Cassini spacecraft has gathered a wealth of information in the hopes of unraveling the mysteries of the subsurface ocean that lurks beneath the moon’s icy crust. 
This view looks toward the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Enceladus, where north is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft’s narrow-angle camera on April 13. 
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute 
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