What are these things?

Enceladus hes been unusual since early pics in 2004 and now things have gotten even weirder.  Some of these formations have baffled astronomers.  Here is an intro on what they recently saw on a  flyby.  Were you aware of this?:

If you thought Saturn’s moon Enceladus couldn’t get any more bizzare — with its magnificent plumes, crazy tiger-stripe-like fissures and global subsurface salty ocean — think again. New images of this moon’s northern region just in from the Cassini spacecraft show surprising and perplexing features: a tortured surface where craters look like they are melting, and fractures that cut straight across the landscape.

Here is one statement from a NASA engineer about this unusual and elusive moon!

“We’ve been puzzling over Enceladus’ south pole for so long, time to be puzzled by the north pole!” tweeted NASA engineer Sarah Milkovich, who formerly worked on the Cassini mission.

This is one of the new pics of the surface that looks like drips on a canvas:

Let’s find out more about this strange flyby and check out footage of Enceladus on page 2

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