While waiting for images from Cassini’s flyby of Rhea I saw this raw image, showing the stark crescent of Enceladus above the bands of Saturn’s rings, seen edge-on. A beautiful composition that deserved sharing.
Where’s the moon’s geysers, you say? Don’t worry. They’re there. They just need the right lighting.
Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
UPDATE: And if you turn it around……no, it’s not Antiques Roadshow, it’s a color-calibrated image from the same series by the inimitable Gordan Ugarkovic, showing the “right” position of Enceladus relative to the rings. How to tell? Well the jets are visible, for one, and they erupt from the moon’s south pole. Thanks Gordan!!
Image: NASA/JPL/SSI/Gordan Ugarkovic
Lights in the Dark 
Here’s my take on that image: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=20892
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Very nice. Is that the correct “orientation” of it?
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I assume so, given that the south polar plumes are faintly visible there.
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[smacks head]
Oh yeah.
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