Outward From Enceladus An Orion’s Arm future history project image. Bulk LH₂/LO₂ Tanker/Transport outbound from Enceladus after having docked with its Nuclear OTV stage and initiated burn for 5,292 m/s Hohmann transit to an orbit around Titan, trip time 3 days, 16 hours, where it will stand on-station serving re-fueling duty for construction vehicles in the process of habitat construction. This post is a continuation of the exploration of specialized spacecraft used to construct and maintain large scale space habitats in and among the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Theme begun with my posts: Link: R.E.M. Repair & Engineering Module Link: R.E.M. Damage Inspection Link: Enceladus Station Image would fall between the +300 year mark and the +750 year mark on my future history timeline, context link below. Future History Timeline Context Link: Orion’s Arm Future History Timeline. Composition Notes I used Celestia to set up the scene, placing my camera in an Enceladus parallel orbit looking back past the moon toward Saturn, which gave me a visual scale reference to work from, to achieve a true appearance of how Saturn might look from this position and angle. Saturn image is PIA14922, courtesy NASA/JPL, a natural color view obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on May 6, 2012. I’ve edited and enlarged the image to fit visual scale from near the orbit of Enceladus. Enceladus image is PIA08354 courtesy NASA/JPL, a mosaic obtained with the Cassini spacecraft Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle. The mosaic shows the anti-Saturnian hemisphere of Enceladus -- the side that always faces away from Saturn. I’ve dropped the original false color from the image (original is shot with an ultraviolet filter centered at 338 nanometers, and a near-infrared filter centered at 930 nanometers, revealing a wider spectrum than the human eye) bringing the image near to natural light as possible. Image has been scale adjusted for this scene. All models are my own Bryce creations, constructed in Bryce 6.3, rendered in Bryce 7 Pro. As always thank you for your interest, thoughtful comments, and encouragement.