A report on Cryovolcano and Tiger stripes (Enceladus)

Doom Mons, one of the most reliably identified cryovolcanoes on Saturn's moon Titan

Cassini view of Enceladus's south pole. The tiger stripes, from lower left to upper right, are the Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, Alexandria and Camphor sulci.

Plumes of Enceladus, feeding Saturn's E Ring, seem to arise from the "Tiger Stripes" near the south pole.

Composite map of the southern hemisphere of Enceladus (2007)

Enceladus - South Pole - Geyser basin (August 10, 2014).

Enceladus - South Pole - Geysers spray water from many locations along the "tiger stripes".

Eruptions on Enceladus may seem to be "discrete" jets, but may be "curtain" eruptions instead (video animation)

Enceladus orbiting within Saturn's E ring

Enceladus geyser tendrils - comparison of images ("a";"c") with computer simulations

Enceladus south polar region - locations of most active tendril-producing geysers

Observations from the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) instrument showed the tiger stripes to have elevated surface temperatures, indicative of present-day cryovolcanism on Enceladus centered on the tiger stripes.

- Tiger stripes (Enceladus)

On November 27, 2005, Cassini photographed geysers on the south pole of Enceladus.

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View of trailing hemisphere in natural color

Enceladus

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Sixth-largest moon of Saturn .

Voyager 2 view of Enceladus in 1981: Samarkand Sulci vertical grooves (lower center); Ali Baba and Aladdin craters (upper left)

Enceladus's orbit (red) – Saturn's north pole view

Possible origins of methane found in plumes

Eruptions on Enceladus look like discrete jets, but may be "curtain eruptions" instead
( video animation)

$South polar view of the anti-Saturn hemisphere, with fractured areas in blue (false color)$

Enceladus – tilted terminator – north is up

Enceladus – possibility of fresh ice detected (September 18, 2020)

Enceladus – Infrared map view (September 29, 2020)

$View of Enceladus's Europa-like surface with the Labtayt Sulci fractures at center and the Ebony and Cufa dorsa at lower left, imaged by Cassini on February 17, 2005$

Y-shaped discontinuities, imaged February 15, 2016

One possible scheme for Enceladus's cryovolcanism

A model of the interior of Enceladus: silicate core (brown); water-ice-rich mantle (white); a proposed diapir under the south pole (noted in the mantle (yellow) and core (red))

Artist's impression of a global subsurface ocean of liquid water ([[:File:PIA20013-Enceladus-SaturnMoon-ArtistConcept-20151026.jpg|updated and better scaled version]])

Enceladus – organics on ice grains (artist concept)

Chemical composition of Enceladus's plumes

$Heat map of the south polar fractures, dubbed 'tiger stripes'$

Enceladus (artist concept; February 24, 2020)

Artist's impression of possible hydrothermal activity on Enceladus's ocean floor

Animated 3D model of the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft

Enceladus and south polar jets (April 13, 2017).

Plumes above the limb of Enceladus feeding the E ring

Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Enceladus

A size comparison of Enceladus against the British Isles.

Cryovolcanoes near the south pole shoot geyser-like jets of water vapor, molecular hydrogen, other volatiles, and solid material, including sodium chloride crystals and ice particles, into space, totaling about 200 kg per second.

Near the center of this terrain are four fractures bounded by ridges, unofficially called "tiger stripes".