Enceladus plume

Jets of icy particles burst from Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, on Nov. 27, 2005. This striking image is one of a number shown off by researchers at a Dec. 5, 2005, meeting in San Francisco of the American Geophysical Union.

December 6, 2005 1:56 PM PST

Photo by: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute