Lunar Jawbreaker

APOD’s Picture of the Day for June 28, 2009 features one of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus, taken by the Cassini spacecraft. It shows the moon with false-blue color “tiger stripes” which is where ice spews from the moon and helps feed particles that create Saturn’s E-ring.

Image courtesy of and copyrighted by NASA

This picture amused me because, at first, it looked to me like a gigantic scoop of vanilla ice cream with a touch of spearmint. Then a friend of mine piped in that it looks like an enormous jawbreaker which I do find to be a more appropriate description. Either way, we now kind of want to take a bit out of Enceladus.

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