Friday, August 1, 2014

101 GEYSERS AND MORE ON ICY SATURN MOON


Scientists using mission data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have identified 101 distinct geysers erupting on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Their analysis suggests it is possible for liquid water to reach from the moon’s underground sea all the way to its Surface.

Source and further reading:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-246

This animation shows a 3-D model of 98 geysers whose source locations and tilts were found in a Cassini imaging survey of Enceladus' south polar terrain by the method of triangulation.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute /  SOURCE: corina marinescu

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