Wired Space Photo of the Day - the Tectonics on Enceladus.
One of Saturns moons, the photo taken by Cassini, and it’s… just stunning.
Enceladus is absolutely my favorite moon in our solar system. It's one of only a handful of places in the universe that are geologically active. Near its south pole, cryovolcanoes on Enceladus shoot jets of water ice into space, which are visible when the moon is backlit by the sun. The above image is actually an enhanced color mosaic of 21 different images taken by the Cassini spacecraft. This next image has been filtered by astronomers to help them study the cryovolcanoes.
But my favorite image is this artist's rendering, which shows what the absolutely stunning view might be like when astronauts finally travel a billion kilometers to visit the surface of Enceladus. That smaller body pictured near Saturn's rings is Titan, another moon (and my second favorite moon in our solar system.)
I have no doubt we'll make it out there one day. I just hope the astronauts really do wear awesomely colored spacesuits just like that.