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Article: Saturn's Moons Titan and Enceladus Seen by Cassini.
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- February 18, 2005
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Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had a busy week, snapping stunning new images of two of Saturn's moons -- smoggy Titan on Feb. 15 and wrinkled Enceladus on Feb. 16.
Visible in radar images released today are a crater, channels, and terrain similar to the area where the European Space Agency's Huygens probe landed on Jan. 14.
The crater is approximately 60 kilometers (37 miles) in diameter. Earlier this week, the radar team released an image of a giant impact crater dubbed "Circus Maximus," about 440 kilometers wide (273 miles).
"The appearance of the small ...