DOWN SOUTH. This false-color view of the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows that more heavily cratered, presumably older terrain lies next to smoother, younger terrain. The smooth patches indicate that the south-polar area has undergone recent fracturing or upheavals.
Credit: JPL/NASA, Space Science Institute
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