| Enceladus | |
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| Satellite of | Saturn |
| Diameter | 505 km |
| Discovery date | 28 August 1789 |
| Discovered by | William Herschel |
Enceladus (or Saturn II) is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn. It is a relatively small moon, with a diameter of just over 500 kilometers, just a tenth of the size of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Enceladus is one of the only three outer Solar System bodies where eruptions have been observed, the other two being Io and Triton, satellites of Jupiter and Neptune respectively.
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Nearly 200 years had passed since its discovery, when eventually in 1981, Voyager 2 managed to get a close up look at its surface.