by iamlucky13 » Wed Nov 05, 2008 7:21 pm
I see a couple things that could potentially be craters, but really the landscape is so distorted I wouldn't try to say for certain. Enceladus isn't completely devoid of craters, by the way. It's just that it's surface is active enough that it tends to cover them over in relatively short time periods.
Also, I would suppose there are relatively flat areas outside of the heavily striped zones that a potential probe could land, but none are being proposed for the foreseeable future, so it's a rather academic question.
![Image](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0810/enceladus9_cassini.jpg)
I see a couple things that could potentially be craters, but really the landscape is so distorted I wouldn't try to say for certain. Enceladus isn't completely devoid of craters, by the way. It's just that it's surface is active enough that it tends to cover them over in relatively short time periods.
Also, I would suppose there are relatively flat areas outside of the heavily striped zones that a potential probe could land, but none are being proposed for the foreseeable future, so it's a rather academic question.
[img]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0810/enceladus9_cassini.jpg[/img]