Water Geyser on Saturn's Moon

[Ichingcarpenter]

Striking new photos of water-vapor geysers erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus were beamed to Earth this week by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around the ringed planet.

Cassini made its deepest dive yet into the plumes pouring out from the moon's south pole on Nov. 2 during a planned flyby of Enceladus. The spacecraft approached within about 62 miles (100 km) of the moon's surface.

The powerful plumes, which contain water vapor, sodium and organic chemicals such as carbon dioxide, look a bit like the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park.


http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091104-enceladus-plumes.html





Bright water-vapor plumes glisten on Enceladus in this image taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 1, 2009

[comtec]

1. wow

...and you can have all these planets but Io....\
welp it's on the list of allowed planets, lets go there!!!

[kedrys]

2. All these worlds

are yours except Europa
Attempt no landings there
Use them together
Use them in peace

[comtec]

3. Thank you :)

I couldn't remember it off the top of my head.

[kedrys]

4. I'd still pass on Io, unless I needed some really high-grade sulfur

Pretty violent moon - excellent volcanoes, though. :hi:

[Phoonzang]

5. Here's another shot that shows a bit of terrain detail....

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. It sooooo needs to be seen in the highest pixel count possible

also in the largest screen you have.

JPL is the source for real viewing. Some folks' computers, graphic's card, bandwidth and screen can only take so much in at once. I think your
photo rocks.

[Phoonzang]

7. Whoops. I should have thought about bandwith before I posted that...

I'd try to find a smaller version but it won't let me edit my post anymore!

[Indenturedebtor]

8. Amazing! Thank you for posting n/t