Real Life Minmus (Enceladus)

[CaptainApollo]

Hello everyone! Today I was reading one of my astronomy books, and I noticed something! One of Saturn's moons, a small one called Enceladus, looks a lot like Minmus in this artist's impression! I'm surprised I don't see Jeb, Bill, Bob or Valentina on there! I love the color of this picture and of Minmus in general, too!

[DMSP]

Enceladus reflects 99.2% of light that touches its surface. Most reflective thing in our system.

My favorite moon.

[Thomas988]

Now if only Minmus has those water jets.

[CaptainApollo]

Wow, that is very interesting! One of my favourites too, my two favourites are Enceladus and our moon, because we have actually set foot on it!

Haha, yeah! That would be cool. Squad, are you seeing this? Add water jets to Minmus!

[Duxwing]

Enceladus reflects 99.2% of light that touches its surface. Most reflective thing in our system.

My favorite moon.

Gonna need sunglasses!

-Duxwing

[CaptainApollo]

For sure, get some space-grade sunglasses!

[lajoswinkler]

You don't need sunglasses there. Saturn is far away. Enceladus is comparable to a skiing resort on a very, very cloudy day.

Just because something has a huge albedo doesn't mean it's bright.

[A1Ch1]

Saturn gets about 1% the sunlight Earth does, which is equivalent to a typical overcast midday. The darkest clouds reduce illumination to about 0.1%

[daniel l.]

Hey! i borrowed that book from the library just a month ago!!!! :D

[CaptainApollo]

Really Daniel? That's awesome! It is actually from the library too, weird.. But cool! :D