Features on Enceladus Features on Enceladus Ahmad is a crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Ahmad was first discovered in Voyager 2 images but was seen at much higher resolution, though near the terminator, by Cassini. It is located at 57.4° North Latitude, 305.4° West Longitude and is 16 kilometers across. The western portion of the crater is largely absent, either buried or disrupted by the eastern margin of Samarkand Sulci. A large, dome-like structure occupies the interior of the crater, caused by infill of material from Samarkand Sulci or from viscous relaxation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ahmad (crater)"
Aladdin is a crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Aladdin was first discovered in Voyager 2 images. It is located at 63.1° North Latitude, 16.9° West Longitude and is 34 kilometers across. Aladdin has a large dome in its interior, suggesting the crater has undergone some viscous relaxation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aladdin (crater)"
Ali Baba is a large crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Ali Baba was first discovered in Voyager 2 images. It is located at 57.2° North Latitude, 12.0° West Longitude and is 35 kilometers across. Ali Baba has a large dome in its interior, suggesting the crater has undergone viscous relaxation. The top of the dome even reaches higher than the crater rim. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ali Baba (crater)"
Bassorah Fossa is a trough south of Ali Baba crater on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Bassorah Fossa was first seen in Voyager 2 images. It is located at 45.4 North Latitude, 6.3 West Longitude and is 131 kilometers long. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bassorah Fossa"
Dalilah is a crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Dalilah was first discovered in Voyager 2 images but was seen at much higher resolution by Cassini. It is located at 52.9° North Latitude, 246.4° West Longitude and is 14 kilometers across. Fractures have deformed the south-eastern side of Dalilah as well as the dome at the center of the crater. This effect of tectonic deformation of dome formed through viscous relaxation is also seen on a slightly larger scale at Dunyazad crater. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dalilah (crater)"
Daryabar Fossa is an east-west trending trough on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Daryabar Fossa was first seen in Voyager 2 images, though a small section was see at much higher resolution by Cassini. It is centered at 9.7° North Latitude, 359.1° West Longitude and is approximately 201 kilometers long. Based on limb profiles of Voyager 2 images, Daryabar Fossa was determined to be a 400- meter deep and 4 kilometers wide (Kargel and Pozio 1996). Daryabar Fossa runs perpendicular to the scarp Isbanir Fossa and is right-laterally offset 15-20 km by the scarp, suggesting Isbanir is a strike-slip or transform fault (Rothery 1999). ...more on Wikipedia about "Daryabar Fossa"
Diyar Planitia is a region of relatively un-cratered terrain on Saturn's moon Enceladus. It is located at 0.5° North Latitude, 239.7° West Longitude and is approximately 311 km across. ...more on Wikipedia about "Diyar Planitia"
Duban is a crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Duban was first seen in Voyager 2 images, though the crater has also been seen in much higher resolution Cassini images. It is located at 58.3° North Latitude, 277.5° West Longitude and is 20 kilometers across. In the Cassini image, evidence for significant tectonic deformation can be seen along the northwest rim of the crater. ...more on Wikipedia about "Duban (crater)"
Dunyazad is a large crater on Saturn's moon Enceladus first discovered by the Voyager spacecraft. It is located at 42.6 North Latitude, 196.5 West Longitude and is approximately 27 kilometers across, making it one of the largest craters on Enceladus. Dunyazad is the southernmost crater of a prominent crater triplet on Enceladus' anti-Saturnian hemisphere (there is no evidence that the impacts are related or were formed from break-up of a single body, like Shoemaker-Levy 9). Voyager discovery images of this crater revealed an up-domed floor at Dunyazad, suggesting that the crater had been modified by viscous relaxation. Higher resolution views of Dunyazad taken by the Cassini Spacecraft during a close flyby on March 9, 2005 reveal not only an up-domed floor, but numerous tectonic fractures as well, particularly within the dome and northeastern crater rim. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dunyazad (crater)"
Gharib is a crater near the north pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Gharib was first seen in Voyager 2 images. It is located at 81.3° North Latitude, 251.7° West Longitude and is 20 kilometers across. A large, dome-like structure occupies the interior of the crater, suggesting the crater has undergone significant viscous relaxation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gharib (crater)"
Harran Sulci is a region of grooved terrain on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The feature is centered at 26.7° North Latitude, 237.6° West Longitude and is approximately 276 kilometers long. Harran Sulci bounds Diyar Planitia to the north and west. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harran Sulci"
Isbanir Fossa is a north-south trending scarp on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Isbanir Fossa was first seen in Voyager 2 images, though a small section was see at much higher resolution by Cassini. It is centered at 12.6° North Latitude, 354.0° West Longitude and is approximately 132 kilometers long. Based on photoclinometric analysis of Voyager 2 images (using topographic shading in an image to determine slope), like the one at right, Isbanir Fossa was determined to be a 300- meter tall, west-dipping scarp (Kargel and Pozio 1996). Two sets of troughs can be seen running perpendicular to Isbanir Fossa, like Daryabar Fossa. These troughts appear to be right-laterally offset 15-20 km east and west of Isbanir Fossa, suggesting that the scarp maybe a strike-slip fault or even a transform fault with troughs like Daryabar Fossa respresenting spreading centers (Rothery 1999). ...more on Wikipedia about "Isbanir Fossa"
Julnar is a crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Julnar was first discovered in Voyager 2 and has only been seen at comparable resolution by Cassini. It is located at 54.2° North Latitude, 342.0° West Longitude and is approximately 20 kilometers across. ...more on Wikipedia about "Julnar (crater)"
This is a list of named geological features on Enceladus. Geological features on Enceladus are named after people and places from the Arabian Nights. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of geological features on Enceladus" shortopedia Is Good For You. Features_on_Enceladus
Musa is a crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Musa was first seen in Voyager 2 images. It is located at 73.8° North Latitude, 6.5° West Longitude and is 22 kilometers across. A large, dome-like structure occupies the interior of the crater, suggesting the crater has undergone significant viscous relaxation. From Voyager 2 images, it also appears that Musa is superimposed on an older crater that formed just to the south. ...more on Wikipedia about "Musa (crater)"
Peri-Banu is a crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Peri-Banu was first discovered in Voyager 2 images but was seen at much higher resolution, though near the terminator, by Cassini. It is located at 63.1° North Latitude, 317.9° West Longitude and is 16 kilometers across. The western portion of the crater is largely absent, either buried or disrupted by the eastern margin of Samarkand Sulci. A large, dome-like structure occupies the interior of the crater, caused by infill of material from Samarkand Sulci or from viscous relaxation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peri-Banu (crater)"
Salih is a small crater near the sub-Saturnian point of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Salih was first discovered in images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. It is located at 6.5° South Latitude, 0° West Longitude (IAU-defined longitude is 5° West Longitude) and is 4 kilometers across. Available images of this crater have too low resolution to determine anything about the geology of this crater. ...more on Wikipedia about "Salih (crater)"
Samad is a crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Samad was first discovered in Voyager 2 images. It is located at 62.3° North Latitude, 355.1° West Longitude and is 16 kilometers across. Currently available images are too low in resolution to determine if this crater has been tectonically deformed, but the lack of a prominent central dome suggests Samad has not undergone the level of viscous relaxation of other craters in its size range, like Dalilah or Ahmad. ...more on Wikipedia about "Samad (crater)"
Samarkand Sulci is a region of grooved terrain on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The feature is centered at 30.5° North Latitude, 326.8° West Longitude and is approximately 383 kilometers long. Samarkand Sulci consists of three parts. The southern and eastern extensions bound Sarandib Planitia on its western and northern sides, respectively. The northern portions extends into a region of cratered terrain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Samarkand Sulci"
Sarandib Planitia is a region of relatively un-cratered terrain on Saturn's moon Enceladus. It is located at 4.4° North Latitude, 298.0° West Longitude and is approximately 200 km across. From Voyager images, Sarandib Planitia is considered part of either the ridged plains unit ( Kargel and Pozio 1996) or smooth plains unit ( Rothery 1999) of Enceladus, thought to be the youngest terrain on Enceladus. In more recent (and higher resolution) Cassini images, Sarandib is resolved into a region of relatively low ridges, with a band of rifted terrain cutting through the middle from northwest to southeast. In addition, a series of long-wavelength compression ridges are seen in the western portion of Sarandib Planitia, reminiscent of banded terrain on Europa, like Astypalaea Linea. Only ~20 craters larger than 1 kilometer across (the largest only 4.5 kilometers across) have been found in Sarandib, demonstrating the youthful age of the region. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sarandib Planitia"
Shahrazad is a large crater on Saturn's moon Enceladus first discovered by the Voyager spacecraft. It is located at 48.2° North Latitude, 195.1° West Longitude and is approximately 18.5 kilometers across. Shahrazad is the middle crater of a prominent crater triplet on Enceladus' anti-Saturnian hemisphere (there is no evidence that the impacts are related or were formed from break-up of a single body, like Shoemaker-Levy 9). Voyager images revealed very little about this crater, however, higher resolution views of Shahrazad taken by the Cassini Spacecraft during a close flyby on March 9, 2005 reveal significant north-south fracturing that runs through all three craters of the triplet. Deep canyons mark the northern and eastern portions of Shahrazad's rim. Some evidence for viscous relaxation can be seen, but it is not nearly as significant as at Dunyazad to its immediate south or at Aladdin elsewhere on the satellite. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shahrazad (crater)"
Shahryar is a crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Shahryar was first seen in Voyager 2 images, but was seen at much higher resolution by the Cassini spacecraft. It is located at 59.7° North Latitude, 225.0° West Longitude and is 21 kilometers across. Despite being nearly the same size as the nearby Sindbad crater, Shahryar does not exhibit a dome-like structure on its floor, suggesting it has not undergone significant viscous relaxation. In addition, there is very little evidence that it has experienced tectonic deformation, suggesting that Shahryar is a relatively young crater. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shahryar (crater)"
Sindbad is a crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Sindbad was first seen in Voyager 2 images, thought the southern rim has been seen by Cassini. It is located at 68.9° North Latitude, 211.4° West Longitude and is 23 kilometers across. A large, dome-like structure occupies the interior of the crater, suggesting the crater has undergone significant viscous relaxation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sindbad (crater)"
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