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Cracked Ice Redux
Deep cracks and grooves slice into the icy crust of Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn, in this image from the Cassini spacecraft. Cassini flew about 300 miles (500 km) from Enceladus on March 9. It snapped this image from a range of about 16,000 miles (26,000 km). The sharp, dark fissures may be younger than the other, gentler grooves. The cracks and the paucity of impact craters suggests that the moon's surface is relatively young, indicating that processes on the moon itself are responsible for altering the surface. [Credit: NASA/JPL]
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