🌙 Moon
Enceladus
A small, shiny moon that sprays water into space.
- Size
- 500 km across, 4% as wide as Earth
- Goes round Saturn
- every 32.9 hours
- Discovered
- 1789, by William Herschel
Did you know?
- Geysers at its south pole shoot water from a hidden ocean out into space.
- It reflects almost all the sunlight that hits it, making it one of the brightest objects in the solar system.
Photographed or visited by
Cassini–Huygens
Thirteen years around Saturn, and a landing on Titan.
Compare Enceladus with EarthSide by side, to scale, in the app
More NASA photos of EnceladusStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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