This false-color, close-up look at Enceladus yields new insight into the different processes that have shaped the moon’s icy surface. Extending through the center of this image, a system of two-mile (three-kilometer) wide rifts and 12-mile (20-kilometer) wide lanes of grooved terrain separate two distinct geological provinces on Enceladus. To the right of the boundary is older, cratered terrain – a region peppered with craters of all sizes from six miles (10 kilometers) in diameter, down craters near the limit of resolution. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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