JWST captured Enceladus’ plume spraying water nearly 10,000 kilometers into space
The distance is almost 19 times the diameter of the Saturn moon
![A false-color image of a watery plume coming off Saturn's moon Enceladus.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/060123_lg_Enceladus-plume_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is famous for its watery plume, shown in this 2006 false-color image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers now have a better idea of how large the plume is and where its contents end up.
JPL-Caltech/NASA, Space Science Institute