When viewed with north pointing up, as in this image, the day-night boundary line (or terminator) cuts diagonally across Enceladus, with Saturn approaching its northern summer solstice. This change of season, coupled with a new spacecraft trajectory, has progressively revealed new terrains compared to when Cassini arrived in 2004, when the southern hemisphere was more illuminated. This view captured by NASA's Cassini Mission to Saturn shows wrinkled plains that are remarkably youthful in appearance, being generally free of large impact craters.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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