Enigmatic features on Enceladus

Just as I thought Saturn’s little ice moon Enceladus couldn’t get any cuter, I found out it has dimples.  You won’t spot them easily in the Cassini images, but in topographic maps, which Dr. Paul Schenk presented yesterday at LPSC, they’re striking.  Schenk identified 5 large depressions smattered across Enceladus, each roughly 100 km across and 1 km deep.  For a moon the size of Great Britain, those dimples are … Continue reading Enigmatic features on Enceladus