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Enceladus

[Image of Enceladus]

Mean Radius:
256.2 km

Mass:
8.40x1019 kg

Orbital Period:
1.37 Earth days

Rotation Period:
1.37 Earth days

Orbit:
238,040 km from Saturn

Enceladus one of the many moons of Saturn. Other moons include Dione, Iapetus, Mimas, Phoebe, Rhea, Tethys, and Titan.

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Workshop on Remote Sensing of Planetary Ices: Earth and other Solid Bodies - information and abstracts from the 1997 workshop held at the USGS Flagstaff Field Center

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