A Fresh Face (Enceladus)

A Fresh Face (Enceladus), a photo by Lunar and Planetary Institute on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
The leading hemisphere of Enceladus displays a remarkably fresh-looking surface in this recent Cassini view. At this resolution, only a few craters can be made out in this wrinkled region of the geologically active moon's surface. A far more heavily cratered, and older, terrain region is visible to the northwest. This view is centered on 15º north latitude, 109º west longitude. North on Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across) is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 30, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 108,000 kilometers (67,000 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 75º. Image scale is 646 meters (2,119 feet) per pixel.