Enceladus’ South Pole

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South pole region of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus

It must be a human tendency to name regions based on known areas on Earth, as Baghdad and Damascus show up on this depiction of the southern pole of Saturn’s moon – Enceladus. These Cassini survey images of the south pole, taken with Cassini’s narrow-angle camera,  look across the region of Enceladus’ geyser basin and down on the ends of the Baghdad and Damascus fractures that face Saturn. The  segments with these geysers with fractures seen in these images, are among the most active and warmest in the region

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