Just when you think NASA is boring they send images from the solar system that blow Hollywood's special effects away.

Image Advisory: February 23, 2010

CASSINI FINDS PLETHORA OF PLUMES, HOTSPOTS AT ENCELADUS

Newly released images from last November's swoop over Saturn's icy moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal a forest of new jets spraying from prominent fractures crossing the south polar region and yield the most detailed temperature map to date of one fracture.

The new images from the imaging science subsystem and the composite infrared spectrometer teams also include the best 3-D image ever obtained of a "tiger stripe," a fissure that sprays icy particles, water vapor and organic compounds. There are also views of regions not well-mapped previously on Enceladus, including a southern area with crudely circular tectonic patterns.

Oh---by the way---here is the REAL "special effects":