ENCELADUS

ENCELADUS TERRAINS

• Enceladus has 5 different terrains
• Enceladus also is one of 60 inner moons of Saturn
• - craters with diameters of 35 diameters at most
• - terrains with no craters
• - plains & corrugated terrain and crustal deformations/fissures

ENCELADUS ORBIT

• Enceladus is 238,000 km away from Saturn
• Also Enceladus is the closest moon to Saturn's E-ring
• Also Enceladus would orbit within the E-ring and that's when it's at its most density
• Also Enceladus orbit ring is almost exactly a circle

ENCELADUS HEAT SOURCE

• Enceladus heat source comes from the southern pole
• Heat on Enceladus is made up by radiation.
• And there's 15 giga wats located in the southern pole/discovered in 2011
• There is three geysers located on the south pole were plumes of water are spewed out
• Also nicknamed the tiger stripes

ENCELADUS TIGER STRIPES

• So the tiger stripes are basically geysers
• - radiation heating
• - heat waves
• - surface vents
• - chamber

ENCELADUS NAME

• Enceladus was a Greek god who was the son of Gaia/earth
• Also Enceladus fought in a war and got killed by Athena
• Also was buried under mount Etna which is located on the island of Sicily
• Also in Greece when a earthquake happens it's referred to "strike of Enceladus"

REFERENCES

• www.solarsystem.nasa.gov
• www.upload.wikipedia.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/enceladus_(moon)
• Enceladus video
• www.spacespin.org/article.php?story=cassini_enceladus_tiger_stripes_cubs

REFERENCES

• www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus_(mythology)
• Haiku Deck pictures