October 18, 2015

The area around Enceladus north pole with its many craters photographed by the Cassini space probe (Photo NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

In recent days, the Cassini spacecraft made one of the closesest flybys with Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, passing at a distance of about 1,840 kilometers (almost 1,140 miles) from its surface. The first pictures received at the mission control center show that Enceladus north pole has many fractures in the ice crust that covers this moon but there are also thin cracks running through it and many craters around it.