Cassini to photograph Enceladus

PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take high-resolution radar image of Saturn's moon Enceladus during a flyby of the icy moon, the U.S. space agency said.

The spacecraft will come within 300 miles of Enceladus at its closest point Sunday, which will allow Cassini's synthetic aperture radar to sweep across a long, narrow swath of the surface just north of the moon's south pole.

NASA said the mission's visible-light cameras will take images of Enceladus and its famous jets, and the composite infrared spectrometer will make new measurements of hot spots from which the sprays of icy particles and water vapor emerge.