Enceladus
At a glance
- Type
- Moon
- Distance
- Solar System
- Naked eye
- Only through a telescope
- Known since
- 1600–1900 (early telescopes)
- Colour
- White
- Feature
- Water or ice
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Jets of water shoot into space from cracks near Enceladus's south pole, called tiger stripes.
- Enceladus reflects almost all the sunlight that falls on it, so it shines like fresh snow.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q3303 · All space objects · All entries