Enceladus
moon of Saturn
8.62 AU from Earth
A small, brilliant ice moon whose south pole sprays geysers of salty water from an ocean below into space, feeding Saturn's E ring.
- radius 252 km · reflects 99% of sunlight
- geysers of water vapour from its tiger stripes
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
open Enceladus in the atlas ›- kind
- place in the Solar System · moon or small world
- distance
- 237,948 km from Saturn
- size
- 504 km across
- orbits
- Saturn