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Pinstriped Moon
Dark "stripes" highlight the southern hemisphere of Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn. The stripes, which are blue in this enhanced-color image from the Cassini spacecraft, may consist of fresh ice oozing through cracks in the moon's surface. Other Cassini observations show that water ice and other materials shoot out of the cracks and into space, where they resupply one of Saturn's outer rings. Although Enceladus is small, scientists say it has all the ingredients for life. [Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI]
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