# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BE7AhfRIaMg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736749-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/a0355e3efc.jpg
- **Posted:** 2016-05-02T22:41:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Water-world #Enceladus seems to float atop #Saturn's rings as captured by our #Cassini mission. By most predictions prior to Cassini's arrival at Saturn, a moon the size of Enceladus (313 miles, 504 kilometers across) would have been expected to be a dead, frozen world. But Enceladus displays remarkable geologic activity, as evidenced by the plume emanating from its southern polar regions and its global, subsurface ocean. 
#blackandwhite #photography #science #space #planets #NASA #NASABeyond #astronomy

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nasabeyond, science, nasa, planets, space, cassini, photography, blackandwhite, saturn, enceladus, astronomy

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