Enceladus – the Valley of Geysers on snow globe

White Enceladus. The modest size ndash; its diameter is about 500 km away and ndash; He was very bright, so it is possible to open it in the eighteenth century. Most experts even thought a long time that Enceladus has a lot is larger than it actually turned out to be: it was hard to imagine that the moon reflects almost 100% of the light. See: partially covered by white clouds country reflects only 40% of the light it is, and completely hidden in the clouds of Venus surface ndash; 70%. White color Enceladus navёl researchers believe it may be covered with ice crust, and soon the spectrum of observations confirm this assumption. This proved to ice Water ndash; instead of, say, carbon dioxide, which forms the bulk of the Martian polar caps. Real surprise for the researchers was caused by Only in 1980, when Saturn flew past the spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 Enceladus noted that moves in the middle of one of the planet rings ndash; boring and a wide outer ring E, and its surface is similar to a satellite Jupiter – Europe, the same white color, the same long crack in the two longest smooth areas of water ice.